broken folder icon on mac startup?
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Were you able to install OSX from the installer disk? If so, if there were going to be any problems, the disk wouldn't have booted up. Try the installer disk again. If you installed it just by dragging files from a disk to your disk--there may be trouble ahead for ye. You might need to reinstall 9 to get back going. You did not tell us what kind of Mac you had. That will help. Can OSX be used on it?
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Yes I believe its a virus.. IMHO, u should do a virus scan and clean up ur computer.. hopefully u should get ur icons back.. or u can do a system restore to an earlier date.. and if nothing happens.. may be you need to install windows again.. though I hope thats not needed.
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do you have sp2?\n\nhttp://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=icons+disappear+on+startup&mkt=en-US&FORM=SSME
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Try going onto a different account, and then put the icon or dashboard folder into shared (or something like that) and then go back to your account and go to shared (or something like that) and try opening it.
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Tools -> Folder Options -> File types\nSelect the extension of the file,\nAdvance -> Change Icon -> Select the first one.\n\nYou can mail/ping me if you still need help.
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You have uninstalled any software from ur computer but the file path is still in your config file so during startup it automatically runs and gives the error, Use MSCONFIG command from RUN in Start Menu and then remove the uncheck the path from there. I hope the problem will be cleared.
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Here is a idea.\nHow to reappear the icons?\nStep 1-Right Click on your desktop.\nStep 2-Select "Properties"\nStep 3-Go to the "Desktop" tab.\nStep 4-Click on the "Customize Desktop..." Button.\nStep 5-You should be on the "General" Tab. Go and click the "Restore Default" button.\nStep 6-Click Ok\nHopefully that will work. :)
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Go to desktop, right click and then "arrange icons by.." Then make sure "show desktop items" is checked
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have you tried Start->Control Panel->Add or Remove Software option ?\nIf that doesnt work, you are out of luck.
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1) Create a folder.\n2) Drag all your desktop icons to the folder.\n3) Place the folder on the Dock.
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It means that the icon in question is a `shortcut' to a particular program (easily identified by the graphical display of the icon).. if the links to the files (target) are not working, most probably the executive in question has got corrupted.. uninstall that programme.. the icon should be gone too.. if not, delete it manually.. then reinstall the programme.. it should now work.. one very rare chance.. has someone made a screen-grab of your desktop and used the same as the background?
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if its xp it probably just needs to have the cookies, temporary internet files, and the msconfig startup cleaned out. how many icons do you have showing up next to the clock?
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Try adding double quote characters around the entire path. i.e.: path to 'my directory' from the C drive = "C:&#92;my directory&#92;"\n\nnote the quotes!
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i guess it is in your startup folder.so it is opening when you log on.remove it from there.it should be fine
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try going to start->run\ntype msconfig and <ENTER>\ngo to the startup tab and see if something there looks like it might be the culprit.  If you have some time you can disable everything and reboot to see if the problem goes away. if so, start re-enabling things until you figure out what is causing it. Then re-enable everything but that.
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If this issue has been occuring recently, just go to My Computer, select Tools>Folder Options>Select Restore Defaults.  I guess that helps.  If it doesn't, select the General Tab under Folder Options and select the option "Double-click to open an item" and select OK.
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Maybe it's a driver issue. Try reinstalling Mac OS X, note: I'm not saying "format", just reinstall, you can boot from your installation cd and specify that you only want to reinstall the OS, your files, preferences, mail accounts etc will be preseved.