I just installed Win Xp and am experiencing a miniscule problem. When I play games and Alt+Tab out of them, the Desktop Icons have to load up. When I Initially alt tab out, they are the generic icons, it takes a few seconds, then they load up to their proper icons. I'm on a PIII 733 with 256 MB ram. Any way of stopping or preventing this? Thanks in advance.

you need more ram, simple. your game is using all the system resource up and its going to take time to loading those icons. what you can do is go to control panel-system-advanced and go to performance and go to settings and click adjust for best performance.

normally 256mb of ram should be enough for xp since you are a gamer, i suggest you get 512mb stick will be better.

Hi Chris, On XP the Max Cached Icons is set too low,I use this tweak. Remember to backup the registry Make your way to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/currentversion/Explorer In the right window, double click Max Cached Icons, type the value 8192 then reboot You should see a big speed boost icon load, and opening folders. NOTE : If the value is not there, you can simply create it : go to the above specified location right-click an empty space in the right window and select « new » > « string value » For the name, type : Max Cached Icons then double-click it and enter the specified value (8192) Hope this helps ~Tongawonga~