hey hows it going? can someone pls help me out. i think its related to kazza, cuz it happened straight after kazza froze. all my icons on my desktop either show an unknown file icon or text document icon. all the shortcuts have become text doc icons and remaining unknown file. also shortcuts in other folders have changed. i restarted computer several times still made no difference. im worried that it may be a virus. can someone please help me out. not sure if this is related to kazza. otherwise the computers works ok

No guarantee,but I would try deleting your "shelliconcache" file,and rebooting.If you can't find it in a search,make sure you have the "show all hidden files and folders" selaected in Control Panel/Folder Options/View tab.Don't worry,Windows will rebuild/re-create it upon reboot.Let us know please.Your file associations might have also gotten screwed up...if the above doesn't work,get back,and we'll be able to fix that,I believe.When will people learn NOT to download Kazaa?It is complete junk.

Hi I tried what you said to do, but didnt seem to work. tried it a couple times infact. Any other ideas? please help. thanks for the earlier reply, much appreciated!

if this has happened within the 5 day span of the default setting for scanreg. in windows me you can goto RUN and type scanreg /restore that's scanreg space /restore then restore a registry from before this and hopefully and installs that may have caused this. my thinking is that it's the icons listing for your extensions that may have been messed up. Registry Help

Hi I tried what you said. When I ran it, an error message "a device attached to this system is not functioning" came up im not to good with registry, so may be doing something wrong. please let me know. thanks

does it say this on shutdown? scanreg shouldn't be the cause of this error. you can also run scanreg in dos with a boot disk. I'd suggest you try restoring the registry soon or it will be to late to tell if that was the problem. unless you want to use regedit since by default scanreg store 5 backups. one each day. although there may be other way to repair a damaged registry. this is the easiest. also by the sound of things you have more than one problem. check the device manager see if your external devices look ok.

hey hows it going? guess what it got sorted out. i just thought i havent done a virus scan for a long time. i did that, even though no viruses were found, i minimized the program, and all my icons were back to normal. didnt understand how but i was so happy. thanks for replying anyway. much appreciated