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Crazy Changing Icons in Win98SE

  • 25-11-2001 12:30am
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭


    Here's a weird one, since upgrading to WIN98SE some icons have
    without apparant cause been changing, eg a notepad file
    is indicated by say a Windows Help File icon but the file will open
    correctly.

    Very odd, anyone else had this happen to 'em.

    Miké.


Comments

  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    sounds to me like your windows is set for a nervous breakdown. I expect you'll see a Blue Screen Of DeathTM quite soon. No, I dunno, but any Win system I've had has done some weird stuff days before a full crash, so........ :)


  • #3
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭phaxx


    I've seen this all the time. It's not an indication of a crash, merely a really shíte operating system.

    No, seriously.

    [edit]wheee! 500th post! I'm half-way to being a no-lifer![/edit]


  • #4
    phreak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭phreak


    my counter-strike icon keeps changing.

    every so often it changes back to the old icon for no reason!!!


  • #5
    Mixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Mixie


    Go to Microsoft.com and search for PowerToys.

    When you get it, install it. Go to Control Panel and you'll see "Tweak UI". Open it and in there on one of the tabs you'll find a button to 'rebuild icon cache'. Click this, reboot, and hopefully problem solved.


  • #6
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    Scan your computer for viruses with an up-todate virus scanner.


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  • #7
    marauder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭marauder


    I have found that Tweak UI makes this problem worse....


  • #8
    strat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭strat


    its no virus and i agree with phaxx on this one :)

    it dosent happen on XP :o


  • #9
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Have you got Norton tools? That did something similar for me I think.


  • #10
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I downloaded Tweak UI but have'nt needed to use it yet so we'll
    see how that goes.

    Gordon did you mean that Norton makes
    the icons go mad or that I should use Norton to fix the prob,
    as it happens I dont have "...Tools". Sometimes I think these
    diagnosis progs do more harm than good as they encourage
    tweaking by amatures.:D

    Mike.


  • #11
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    No, I meant that ever since I have installed Norton tools I have experienced a similar phenomenon with changing icons, I was just wondering if Norton was part of the reason.


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