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Anonymous   07-24-2005 at 11:59:08 AM

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I've never seen this before.
All the icons on my desktop either have no picture, a picture of another
icon or half of 2 icon pictures from other shortcuts.
I tried a basic restart and it did not correct the problem...

help!
Thanks!

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Anonymous   07-24-2005 at 08:18:48 PM
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"David L." <DavidL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CF8C971B-8C44-4202-A904-E0EE5348AFFB@microsoft.com...
> I've never seen this before.
> All the icons on my desktop either have no picture, a picture of another
> icon or half of 2 icon pictures from other shortcuts.
> I tried a basic restart and it did not correct the problem...
>
> help!
> Thanks!

Try changing your screen resolution/colour depth.

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Anonymous   07-24-2005 at 08:18:49 PM
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Thanks for replying

Changing display settings did not correct the problem.
any more ideas? hehe

I also noticed the icons in control panel are doing the same as the desktop...

thanks!

"Alan Smith" wrote:

>
> "David L." <DavidL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CF8C971B-8C44-4202-A904-E0EE5348AFFB@microsoft.com...
> > I've never seen this before.
> > All the icons on my desktop either have no picture, a picture of another
> > icon or half of 2 icon pictures from other shortcuts.
> > I tried a basic restart and it did not correct the problem...
> >
> > help!
> > Thanks!
>
> Try changing your screen resolution/colour depth.
>
>
>

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mcr   07-24-2005 at 08:18:50 PM
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David L. wrote:
> Thanks for replying
>
> Changing display settings did not correct the problem.
> any more ideas? hehe
>
> I also noticed the icons in control panel are doing the same as the desktop...
>
> thanks!
>
> "Alan Smith" wrote:
>
>
>>"David L." <DavidL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:CF8C971B-8C44-4202-A904-E0EE5348AFFB@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>I've never seen this before.
>>>All the icons on my desktop either have no picture, a picture of another
>>>icon or half of 2 icon pictures from other shortcuts.
>>>I tried a basic restart and it did not correct the problem...
>>>
>>>help!
>>>Thanks!
>>
>>Try changing your screen resolution/colour depth.
>>
>>
>>

Get tweakUI for XP and there is an option for repair icons.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp [...] rtoys.mspx

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