re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' Friday, September 5, 2003 at 4:03 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Martin Brown (1 messages posted) Hey Don, Thanks so much for the walk through on corrupted desktop items. It does exactly what it says on the tin and works a treat. Ur a genius. Much appreciated and best wishes, Martin On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 6:15 am, Don wrote: >To add to my story... After bringing up NT in VGA mode (like safe mode for 98), then >bringing up PC in normal mode, things were ok... Until I changed the icon size in >Control Panel --> display --> appearance. >Then all icons went bad again (after a reboot). I went to VGA mode and did not delete >the shelliconcache file, and then just rebooted in normal mode, and things were fine >again. > >I go and change the icon size again, and I had a problem again. But this time I >noticed a pattern. All my desktop Icons that never had a shortcut arrow were the >ones that were fine (undamaged). All my desktop Icons that did have a shortcut arrow >had the same Icon overlaying the old good Icon. So, I could still see the original >icon below the 'corrupt' icon when the good icon was bigger than the 'corrupt' icon. > >Did any of you try changing your icon size again to see if your icons became corrupt >again? > >Any ideas what can solve this mess? > >Remeber I did start making a icon change (no short cut arrows) in TweakUI, which >started this mess... > > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Don: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 6:15 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (beaner: Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 10:37 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (woodguitar: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 10:12 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (ally: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 4:44 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (bulfate: Wed, Jun 1, 2005, 8:08 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Rod: Sat, May 24, 2003, 7:33 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Don: Mon, May 26, 2003, 6:47 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Don: Tue, May 27, 2003, 6:15 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Martin Brown: Fri, Sep 5, 2003, 4:03 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Sarah H: Wed, Jun 9, 2004, 5:43 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Brandon Howard: Wed, Nov 9, 2005, 9:57 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Pokahawk: Mon, Jun 12, 2006, 11:55 am) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Brad Roce: Thu, Sep 14, 2006, 11:25 pm) re: Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Andrea: Thu, Jan 8, 2009, 12:33 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum