Re: Icons move, icons reload, some drops downs slow ???

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From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/22/05

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    Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:35:41 +1100

    To refresh the icons in the system change the size of icons in Start - Control Panel - Display - Advanced - Appearance, click apply then change the size back. 

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"James B" <nospam@here.com> wrote in message news:%23oQ8ZiMAFHA.3924@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Got a customer that we are trying not to do a full reload to but I am out of
> "magic" to try so any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Anyway here is what is going on.
> 
> 1. Icons on the desktop seem to rearrange themselves to the left and lined
> up. We have turned off autoarragne, etc and turned it on, nothing seems to
> make a difference.
> 
> 2. Related I think is that during open and closing of Explorer all the icons
> on the desktop seem to get rewritten. By that we see each one of them reload
> from program icon to unknown icon back to program icon. This pretty much
> happens any time Explorer is used and I think even IE.
> 
> 3. In certain applications such as Word when we go to open an existing
> document we of course start in My Docs however if we click the drop down to
> change current directory we get a complete pause of Word for up to a minute
> or more. The drop down does not drop down but just hangs then finally after
> a very long pause it releases and we can jump to other directories.
> 
> Steps we have taken:
> 
> 1. Spyware, adware and virus scans. System is clean.
> 2. Update to latest XP patches.
> 3. Used that shell tool that will allow you to disable varios shell
> extensions. Pretty much disabled everything except for MS entries.
> 4. Repair install
> 5. SP upgrades
> 
> At each step we got the same results, nothing ever changed. I suspect the
> shell is somehow messed up but I have no clue what to try next other than a
> reload and yes it would probably be the quicker solution however this is a
> small office PC which is critical to daily task so the shell problems have
> not reached a point at which downtime would be cheaper than just dealing
> with it.
> 
>
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