March 16th, 2006, 06:24 AM
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|  HELP:Desktop Icons,gone blue???
Hi!
all of a sudden my desptop icons have gone blue. i cant get them to default as it was in WinxXP???! i didnt change the colors of the icon ever??
pls let me know how to get it ,,back?
dnt think any malware or virus is in,,cause i have AVG,Spydoctor,LAwasoft.
thnks
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March 16th, 2006, 06:26 AM
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The pics on the icons, or the text underneath?? What has turned blue? 
Cheers
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March 16th, 2006, 05:38 PM
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the background of the icon and the background of the Text underneath each icon on the desktop has turned blue!
thnks
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March 16th, 2006, 06:28 PM
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March 16th, 2006, 06:39 PM
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start--control panel--system-advanced--performance settings--let windows choose
should get them back to normal. | |
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March 17th, 2006, 06:13 AM
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yess even aftr reboot,,its same!
doddsy, i even tried wht u said,didnt work even whn i went to contrl panel/system/advnced/settings/let winds choose.???!!!
any ideas guys? | |
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March 17th, 2006, 07:45 AM
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Have you tried:Right-click the desktop, Arrange Icons By, by name.
Also make sure that active desktop>show web content is NOT selected.
Also try changing your desktop from "true color" to "high color" and see what happens.
The reason that Doddsy suggested rebooting is because the icon cache file IconCache.db [formally called ShellIconCache in 9x]. Doing this usually works. The file usually rebuilds when you reboot. You might want to try and delete this file. Deleting this file now and again shouldnt hurt anything the system will just make a new one.
AS a last resort you could right-click on desktop>desktop >customize desktop> click on each icon> restore default for a very tedious but maybe effective method of getting them back to the default state.
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March 20th, 2006, 07:49 AM
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tried tht too, didnt work???
do u think i need to format my HDD!!! gosh | |
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March 20th, 2006, 06:36 PM
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so, just the icons are blue? there's no other color problems with anything else, pictures and web pages still look the same? | |
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March 22nd, 2006, 07:21 AM
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Try creating either another user account and logging in as them and see if the icons are fine in there (determine whethers is a profile or a system problem) - and if they are fine, I'd consider recreating your profile - much better than formatting your computer agian; thats just crazy talk | |
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