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Empty_5oul
12-21-2006, 10:35 PM
what did i do, my mahcine now looks like this

stats.amdusers.com/screen.jpg

all icons are unrecognised. apart from recycle bin ???????
whats going on, i dont think i did anything wrong? how can i get my icons back and working, its amazing how much you rely on the logos!!!!!

AMDave
12-21-2006, 10:50 PM
It is likely the icon cache is too small, so the icon refresh has eventually failed. It is not an uncommon problem, so there is a common fix for it:

Install and run Tweak UI for WinXP.
Click the "Repair" link, then in the right pane of Tweak UI,
Click on the pull-down and choose "Rebuild Icons".
Click "Repair Now", then "OK" to close the dialog box.
<paraphrased from malektips>

PS - silly thing is this happens in 95,98,ME and XP. Never seen it happen in Win2K, though. Anyone know if this is fixed in Vista?

Nflight
12-21-2006, 10:57 PM
XP did an update that removed the identity of each icon marker. You may have to do what I did and go into the properties of each icon and replace the picture you had in the past. It is a pain in the ASS but it was my only choice or I could have uninstalled the XP update.

Empty_5oul
12-22-2006, 09:33 AM
thanks guys.

dave that worked great, i have all the icons back and working properly again.
cheers

drezha
12-22-2006, 09:58 AM
There is another way of deleting the icon cache without Tweak UI.

I cant for the life of me remember what it is. :lol: Something in Documents and Settings..Hidden by default.

Mine wasn't affected by the MS update...Whenever I restart after a MS update, Super Tango Patcher jumps in and updates the files so I can carry on using my GNOME theme on Windows :)