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Name: dr phillip
Date: June 19, 2003 at 10:26:15 Pacific
Subject: i cant use my desktop icons
OS: windows98
CPU/Ram: intel celeron 64Mb sdram
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i cant use my desktop icons like my computer, my documents, and stuff like that but i can use all my game icons.. i have used swatit to get rid of viruses but that did not work. but when i did use it i had to delete several places with viruss. except for on which is explorer.exe.


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Response Number 1
Name: Manny
Date: June 19, 2003 at 10:49:06 Pacific
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I had a virus one time that infected explorer.exe. It would not let me open icons as well, all it did was freeze the program while trying to open it. To fix this I qurantined it with a virus scanner because I could not repair it, or you can remove from you hard drive by deleting it and emptying your recycle bin. Then I copied explorer.exe from another computer onto a floppy and transferred it onto my computer it should go under (drive leter):\windows, if you do not have a computer to steal it from let me know and I'll see what I could do. This should solve the problem if indeed that file is infected. I would also buy a virus scanner and do weekly scans of the hard drive and well as enabling auto protect to scan all files this will help out a lot. Hope this helps


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Response Number 2
Name: Derek
Date: June 19, 2003 at 14:29:43 Pacific
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Best try to keep to one link per subject, at least while it's on the first page, otherwise you might get repeated responses. Previous link here:
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/144014.html


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Response Number 3
Name: Derek
Date: June 19, 2003 at 14:31:58 Pacific
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