no icons on desktop, system stalls
Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 4:25 pm
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Posted by Ogg
(274 messages posted)
Sometimes when I boot up, the desktop fails to display any of the icons; the background
come up ok, but no icons. The mouse still moves ok too. A ctr-alt-del would reveal
that not all the processes are loaded yet (maybe at the most, just two). Sometimes,
when the same thing happens, the tasklist would reveal that "msgsrv32 - [not responding]"
..and sometimes killing that process would kickstart the bootup to resume OK. But
lately, the former situation seems to be happening (just a blank desktop, and no
msgsrv32 in memory to kill!) Elsewhere, I read that maybe this problem has to
do with a corrupted ShellIconCache cache. ??? But this bootup problem seems intermittent;
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Searching for ShellIconCache issues,
I found one article at MSKB that had suggested to add the registry variable "Max
Icon Cache" and make the value 2000 (MS writes that the default would be 500). Is
this latter method the stragedy the rest of my WinMe collegues use?
I am puzzled why this problem seems to now occur more frequently. Have not
been adjusting the resolution, colour setting (16bit .vs. 32bit) or the icon colour
for years!
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