None of my icons work anymore on my XP laptop. What could cause that?
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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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IF YOU ARE RUNNING XP DO A SYSTEM RESTORE DEFRAG AND TRY AGAIN. IT SHOULD RESPOND THEN
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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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do you mean the icon for the pictures is a red "splotchly" thing or each picture has red splotchs on it?  if the icon has changed then another program that uses that icon for jpg files has taken over as the default icon instead of the standard windows one.  if each picture has red splotches, then I have no idea, sorry
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First tell me what do you want to do??\nWindows XP is an operating system and not a partition of Hard Disk. Do you want to change the icon of the partition of the Hard Disk? If yes go to the properties of it and select the new icon of it.
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In explorer select view menu and then select Icons.\n\nEnjoy\nkoz\nPhoenix, Arizona Computer Repair\nhttp://www.phoenix-Computer-Repair.net\nAffirmative Computer Services
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Should be easy to fix but may need a little more info.\n\nFor those that suggest doing a system restore.....think of sledgehammers and nuts.\n\nFirstly - does your Yahoo icon actually open Internet Explorer when you double click on it?  If so, all that has happened is that the icon is wrong and the link is fine.  To change the icon, right click on the shortcut, click on the Shortcut tab and select the "Change Icon" button.  You'll then be able to find the usual IE icon.\n\nIf your Yahoo icon does NOT open IE...\n\nIn Windows Explorer go to \n\nC:&#92;Documents and Settings&#92;<username>&#92;Start Menu&#92;Programs\n\nHere you'll (probably) see a short cut to IE.  Right click on it and the click Copy.\n\nGo back to your desktop and in a blank area right click and then click Paste.
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pop in your xp disc  when the screen comes up choose r then type in chkdsk /r it should fix it  or start unplugging your cards one at a time to see if one of them is bad
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I've been having some computer problems lately myself where XP won't boot. I tried pretty much everything. But I finally got it working after using this:\n\nFix-It Utilities 6\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009JKGRY/002-0155762-7876854?v=glance&n=229534\n\nI'm not sure if it'll work for you or not, but it's worth a shot.
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i had the same problem and i did a sytem restore. if that doesn't work,\n\ntry checking out the information from the link below.
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check your windows display drivers and try reinstalling them\nand check again.
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On XP, right click on the icon and go to the program tab.  There will be a button for changing the icon.  On other operating systems, just right click on the icon and search through the tabs until you find that change icon button (I have XP, so I'm not exactly sure about other operating systems).
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May be a corrupted XP file.  DId you install anything new prior to getting the message, or done any updates?... I agree with the above suggestion.  Have you thought of doing a System Restore, too?
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http://www.microangelo.us/advanced_icon_editor/XP_icon_editor.asp\n\nI have had much success with this program.\n\nHope this helps..\n\nThe Geeks
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those icons show up under my computer where the c: and d: are,,
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Are you sure it's completely gone and not just the icon? or maybe you just lost it off of the start menu? trying going to search and searchin "My Computer" plus all the hidden files and see if it pops up. If it does right click it and move it to your desktop.\n\nMy experience has been that the computer manufacturers don't give you a copy of XP with the computer, they install a backup version on the harddrive. Call the 800 number of your computer manufacturer and they will walk you through a system recovery that will re-install all the factory installed files that you got when you purchased it.
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Right click the desktop and select properties. Open the desktop tab. Hit customise desktop then tick the items you want. Press OK and your icons will be back!