For some reason, my desktop refreshed and now my desktop icons are messed up. The shadow behind each icon is gone and alpha icons now have jagged edges. I changed nothing in settings and have no idea how this happened or why, but would love to have it back to normal! I checked settings in Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Performance -> Options. I have 'Use drop shadows for icon labels on desktop' checked. Thanks for any help :) My Opera

a couple of things to try; download tweakui microsoft powertoy.it will create an entry in the all program list and then use repair icons. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/... or run system restore. start-all programs-accessories-system tools-system restore- "restore my computer to an earlier time"

Melly, Start your computer in SAFE mode then restart it in Normal mode. This will rebuild the iconcache.db file. If you want those shadows behind the Icon text just "reverse" the procedure at the link below. http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/Windows... Tufenuf

Tufenuf, thank you so much for that link! It seems I hit the "lock web items" and didn't know what it did! Thank you thank you! :

Melly, Glad to see that the problem is squared away & Thanks for posting back. Tufenuf