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I was looking around in my Windows Exployer and noticed my Favorites folder icon had changed to my media player icon and also all my .dlls had changed to the OE icon.
Rebooted and they changed to the right ones.
What gives?
If anyone can properly explain this they have my congratulations for starters.
I think it comes under the general heading of "unknown temporary windows gliches". If it doesn't "keep happening" I would not worry too much about it.
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I do notice this with windows sometimes, I think it may be to do with the datebase type of thing that it keeps for showing icons, if it happens to me all I do is click desktop properties >appearance >item = icon > size =down one, then apply, then back up 1 and OK.. this seems to reset the icons
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Hi Derek-Earlier today I was reading and old Jan-03 thread about Kerio that you and I worked some things out on.
Thanks to you and Topz for the info.
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Keep your desktop icons unchanged with this method.
Drill down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer
Add the value and value name "Max Cached Icons"="8000" to the key above.HTH/Tommy
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Yes, Tommy's idea is worth a go - I set mine up to a large cache so long ago I'd quite forgotten about it.
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Another nice way to do it!
Go to Control Panel, Display, Appearance Tab.
Select Icon from the Item drop down list.
Change the Size up or down one and apply.
Change the Size back to your original and apply.HTH/Tommy
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Tommy
I don't get the idea that this posters problem is permanent as it happens.
Since you mentioned it though I've found an even better way to get shelliconcache to rebuild (I'm assuming that is what your idea was intended to do, to correct the icons). It is this:
Empty the bin. Delete all "shortcut" icons fom the desktop (NOT the program ones like, My Documents, Network Neighborhood, My Computer). Now reboot. Next restore all the shortcut icons from the bin. I've found this works like a charm, better than changing icon sizes back and forth which didn't work very often for me.
The idea with both methods is to "shake" the system into rebuilding a missing or non-updated shelliconcache file, hence curing the problem.
Increasing the cache reduces the likelyhood of having the problem in the first place.
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Derek-You are right in stating my problem is not permanent. That is the first time it happened.
Will use your suggestion next time.
The shelliconcache never did rebuild. I had to restore it from the RB.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Take Care
Deke
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I know it doesn't help much but if you can't shake Windows into rebuilding it (by any crazy method) then sometimes it will suddenly come back on it's own after a few days. Very odd I know.
Another thing to try is to switch your desktop icons between "arrange" and "line-up" but at the same time dramatically increase or decrease the icons sizes. I found my binning trick worked the best but obviously nothing is quite 100%.
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