What the heck's going on with my icons? Virus?

[Brian Damage]

Okey dokey, this is my second thead in this section, just want to see if anyone can help me with this...:dork:

After I switch my computer on and use it for a while, I'll often minimise a window to find that the vast majority of my icons are using the wrong graphics (random, stuff like zip files using e-Mail icons, movie files using html icons, etc.). I am currently using windows 98, and I must admit that my icons are so numerous as to extend of the edge of the screen. I just keep forgetting to tidy my desktop.

So what is this, a virus? A corrupted file somewhere? A bug in windows?

Somebody help me pleeeeeaaaase!

Seeya.

 

[staddydaddy]

I've had this happen to me both on XP and 98. I don't know what causes it, But I'd like to find out.

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

I have no clue. But in my add and remove programs in control panel on my dell, everything is screwed up. Itll say that MOH is 2kb or a BF mod is 6gb, etc.

 

[Hudson]

yeah, i have these types of problems too sometimes, i think its the general bugginess of windows.

 

[thehunter1320]

never happened to me... odd...........

 

[SidewinderX]

get a program called System Mechanic. Clear out all your temp files and registry and invaild uninstaller info, and it might solve it.

 

[pHATE1982]

You want to solve that problem?

Install Linux

Windows is buggy as hell, and you have to take the good with the bad
A couple of months ago every time i went to open a folder it took ten seconds plus to open.... this lasted for about a week... then suddenly it stopped and worked perfectly again.

Microshaft include these bugs so we stupidly upgrade to the next version of windows

WE WILL COMPLY!!!!!!!

 

[staddydaddy]

Originally posted by pHATE1982
Windows is buggy as hell, and you have to take the good with the bad
A couple of months ago every time i went to open a folder it took ten seconds plus to open.... this lasted for about a week... then suddenly it stopped and worked perfectly again.

You prolly had the drive that has windows on it really full with data. This ussually happens if you don't have a good amount of space (300mb) and not a lot of ram. Since the computer can't work in the ram space it has to cache files to the drive. This slows down access times EMENSLY(sp)