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Name: Andrew K.
Date: October 29, 2009 at 23:35:17 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
Product: Microsoft Windows xp professional edition
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

As I access my files, the folders and any document icons change to appear as the original icon with a a blue fast forward button in lower left hand corner. why



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Name: Tufenuf
Date: October 30, 2009 at 05:07:09 Pacific
Reply:

Andrew, Right click your Desktop, choose Properties, under the Settings tab change the Color Quality from 32 bit to 16 bit, click Apply/OK. Now go back and change the Color Quality from 16 bit to 32 bit, click Apply/OK. This will rebuild the iconcache.db file and may correct your icon problem.

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