Re: Desktop icons going walkabout

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:14:44 -0600

Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD drive.
Then go to Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter.
In the Command Prompt window type: SFC /SCANNOW
and hit enter.

Description of Windows XP System File Checker
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747/EN-US/ 

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"Trent SC" wrote:
| My father's mongrel PC with XP Pro (SP2) is behaving oddly, in that about ½
| the desktop icons aren't showing up properly.
|
| The icons for My Computer, IE, OE, Recycle Bin and the shortcut to his
| documents folder are all ok, but shortcuts to Word, Excel, Britannica are
| only displaying the little arrow in the lower left corner and the text, as
| is a Word document that was saved directly to the desktop.
|
| We've tried System Restore to no avail, and I'm rather scratching my head on
| this one.  It's a fairly recent clean installation of XP and he hasn't
| installed anything apart from AVG updates since I set it up for him.  All he
| did yesterday afternoon was write one short letter and run a defrag.
|
| Any suggestions on what I might suggest from a distance and over the phone
| to a relative computer novice to fix this?
|
| TIA

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