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computer icons vanish then reappear
Name: gman932 Date: January 8, 2006 at 13:35:44 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: 2800/ 1gb
Comment:
When i'm on my desktop doing normal operations every now and then the icons and start menu will vanish and then reappear about after 3 seconds. I am running the standard stuff. Virus program, web surfing program, msg program nothing to demanding.
--comp specs 400w psu 2800+ amd / 1g ram xp home ati 9800 pro some ata hdd's
any suggestions on what is the cause of this magic act?
Name: gman932 Date: January 8, 2006 at 13:59:18 Pacific
Reply:
I was using avg then I am using a new program BOTH caused this problem
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Response Number 2
Name: GregS Date: January 8, 2006 at 14:37:52 Pacific
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Do you have Window Blinds installed? If so or if not, I think it's the Windows shell that's crashing on you for some reason. Do the tasktray icons also disappear and slowly re-appear one by one?
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Response Number 3
Name: Tufenuf Date: January 8, 2006 at 14:43:23 Pacific
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gman932, Your max iconcache may need to be increased. Go to the link below and scroll down to line 166 right colum and download the "Add Icon Cache Size to Folder Options/View" .reg file. Save the REG File to your hard disk. Double click it and answer yes to the import prompt. This will give you 4 icon cache choices under the View tab in Folder Options. You can experiment with the choices starting with the smallest first. See if this corrects your problem.
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