Hi,
My desktop icons usually show picture and yesterday, they all become blank
icons. However, if I right click the shortcut property of icon then it show
picture and I also click "Change Icon" to verify the picture. Once I hit
OK, it still show blank picture icon. I check my trendmico and no virus and
spyware found. I will be appreciated your feedback and help.

Thank you in advance,

Johnny Chow

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:26:41 -0800, "Johnny Chow" <jchow10@gmail.com> wrote:


Microsoft TweakUI specifically for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

I have a similar problem - all desktop icons suddenly vanished at
boot-up. If I run a small program which finds the desktop window handle
and calls ShowWindow(hndDesktopWnd, SW_SHOW); then they all return.

Icon problems in Win98 could be rectified by deleting the ShIconCache
file which caused windows to re-constitute the cache. Is there a
similar cache file to delete in Win XP.

Alan Lloyd

Hi,
I reboot computer a couple of time and icons are back now. Don't know the
issue. What is ShowWindow? Is it a file or registrykey?

Thanks,

Johnny Chow

<alanglloyd@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1137795504.363121.198710@g47g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

Johnny Chow wrote:
It is a windows API function. Callable from many windows programming
languages - Delphi, VB, C etc.

Alan Lloyd