Yesterday, when I turned on my computer, I saw windows media player's icon overlapping my other icons in the desktop. I believe the icon that overlapping my other icons is actually a windows media player file icon. The only icons not affected by this are: my computer, my networking place and recycle bin. The icons within "start" is also fine. It is also effecting my icons within the folders. However, all the programs I have seem to be running normally since I have no problem running them at all. I did a virus scan on my computer and no virus is detected.

Well,I give you what I believe to be the easiest/4 ways to fix your problem; 1) Reboot/Boot to Safe Mode,then reboot to Normal Mode. 2) Do a search of your HDD,for the "shelliconcache" file.When found,delete it,and reboot.Windows will rebuild/recreate the file.It is a "hidden" file,however,and "show hidden files and folders" must be ticked under Control Panel/Folder Options/View tab. 3) Change your Display Properties/Color Quality,then change them back. 4) If you have TweakUI,use the Rebuild Icons feature. If any of those work,which I suspect they will...this link may interest you; http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=56 • TheKid •

thanks, the tweakui worked.