Desktop icons corrupted

04-11-05, 07:38 AM

Hi,

I use W-XP SP1. My desktop icons become corrupted. All shortcut icons lost
the sqare with the arrow (although a small line is visible where the square
should end). Some of the icons (Word, Outlook,...) are shown as green
squares. Also in the explorer some files (not all) have green-square icons
(regardless of the view and the type of the file).

What is wrong? How to fix this? Thanks!!!

04-11-05, 08:55 AM

Detlev Dreyer

"ak" <ak> wrote:

> I use W-XP SP1. My desktop icons become corrupted. All shortcut icons
> lost the sqare with the arrow (although a small line is visible where
> the square should end). Some of the icons (Word, Outlook,...) are
> shown as green squares. Also in the explorer some files (not all) have
> green-square icons (regardless of the view and the type of the file).

Install TweakUI.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now.

You may want to increase the icon cache also. Start > Run: Regedit.
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer.

Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign
the value "4096". Reboot when done.

04-11-05, 09:15 AM

YES!

Thank you very much.

"Detlev Dreyer" je napisal:
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04-11-05, 09:36 AM

Detlev Dreyer

"ak" <ak> wrote:

> YES!
>
> Thank you very much.

You're certainly welcome.

04-13-05, 10:18 PM

Rojo Habe

"Detlev Dreyer" <detdreyer> wrote in message
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> "ak" <ak> wrote:
>> Install TweakUI.
> [..]
>
> TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now.
>
> You may want to increase the icon cache also. Start > Run: Regedit.
> Navigate to
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer.
>
> Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign
> the value "4096". Reboot when done.
>
> --
> d-d

I read this with interest, then followed your link, only to find that
TweakUI only works with US English versions of Windows. Is there a way to
manually acheive this? My Outlook icon is trashed on the Start menu (the
one that windows puts in and labels "E-mail"). If I went to the registry
key you mentioned and temporarily changed the value to zero, would this
effectively flush out the icon cache, or is this a BAD idea?

04-13-05, 10:30 PM

Rojo Habe

Aha! Replying to myeslf may be the first sign of madness, but I just found
what I wanted in the Knowledge Base. Changing colour depth refreshes the
icon cache, so all I need to do was change to 16-bit and back again! Many
thanks for putting the idea of a cache in my head so that I knew what to
search for.

"Rojo Habe" <no-one> wrote in message
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04-13-05, 11:35 PM

Detlev Dreyer

"Rojo Habe" <no-one> wrote:

> I read this with interest, then followed your link, only to find that
> TweakUI only works with US English versions of Windows. Is there a way
> to manually acheive this?

TweakUI is installed on all of my machines under German WinXP and there
is no problem at all.

> If I went to the registry key you mentioned and temporarily changed
> the value to zero, would this effectively flush out the icon cache,
> or is this a BAD idea?

That's no good idea. Note the range of this particular value:
"Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons" (Excerpt)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132668/

| The Max Cached Icons value data range is between 100 and 4096.
| The default value is 500.

04-14-05, 07:03 AM

Kelly

TweakUI breaks this even worse. Run line 4:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Which resets your shell icon bpp to 16 and your shell icon size to 32.

04-15-05, 03:57 PM

Maikol

Hello everybody

I have a similar problem, only I used TweakUI's "Repair Icons now
button and now they are all messed up. They look as if they were take
from Windows ME or Windows 98, but I am running an XP machine. On to
of that they look as if they were displayed with 256 colors rather tha
with a gezillion collors as usual. I have tried all the registry trick
and also TweakUI, RefreshEm and all other tune up tricks nothin
changes the icons. Am I doomed to a retro-existence of icons on m
desktop, taskbar and all the folders? Help!!!!!!!!!!

In desparation and frustratio
Maiko

PS: do think of formating my machin

#10

04-16-05, 08:04 AM

Kelly

Same link and fix applies.

#11

04-16-05, 11:39 AM

Maikol

Thank you so much Kelly. It worked!!!!!

bes
Maiko

#12

04-18-05, 06:15 AM

Kelly

Most welcome. Glad to hear it and thanks for the feedback. :o)

#13

04-09-08, 07:48 PM

Audioray

I can't get TweakUI to install on Vista Business any other ideas I am having
the same problem with my Icons. When I try to install Tweak its says it is
not compatible with this operating system.

"Detlev Dreyer" wrote:
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#14

04-09-08, 07:57 PM

Here Today

=======================================
You can read about TweakVI for Vista. Use at your own risk as I have never
used it. Google pulled it up, which may be a quicker way to solve a problem
than posting. http://www.codejacked.com/a-tweakui-for-vista/

"Audioray" <Audioray> wrote in message
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