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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: X-ray on December 07, 2004, 08:25:21 AM
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Guys and Gals
I have tried to fix this myself but I seem to be missing a vital clue here. It's like this: I have several items on my desktop, let's say 4 mp3 files, 2 jpegs and a ZIP archive. I've noticed that the icons are playing musical chairs here (or playing funny buggers, or some other game I don't know the rules of).
The mp3s sometimes have the jpeg icon, the jpegs sometimes have the ZIP archive icon: it's all messed up.
My sound files are set to open with Winamp, and it restores its associations automatically on load. Same story with the pictures: they are automatically opened by ACDSee. This is a new problem, I didn't have it a few weeks back, and I use the same programs to open the same type of file.
Any advice on what can make icons change?
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Hey X-ray, sometimes the icon 'registry' or cache gets corrupted. I've had this happen - sometimes icons get stuffed, sometimes they don't appear at all, etc. Try this:
Just refresh the icon cache by deleting the IconCache.db file from your profile directory (usually /Documents and Settings/Username/Local Settings/Application Data). It will be automatically recreated.
That should fix it. Got that from here (http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak1255.aspx)
Try giving it a reboot after doing that and see what happens. Good luck :-)
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Thanks Darklight, I will do that.
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@ Darklight
Thanks a lot, buddy: it has been 5 days and my icons have behaved themselves nicely. Problem solved. :-)