ppoatt, don't click anything in the Item dropdown menu-- on penalty of
insanity!
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"ppoatt" <ppoatt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| No one has answered you from what I see.
| I am not a wiz. But have you checked in desktop properties
| under the appearance tab.Where the window titled "item"
| Check the color box to the right when"desktop"is in
| the"item"window. Good luck!
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Recently, our office upgraded the computers (4 people in
| >the office)to Windows 98. Yesterday, out of the blue
| >(probably due to human error) one of the computer's
| >desktop icons turned black. The user of the computer
| >can't figure out what she did to cause this?? Also, the
| >words on the desktop, word, etc. are almost always
| >blurry. How can I fix this without going insane? Please
| >email me as soon as possible because she's going to drive
| >me nuts!!!
| >
| >Thank you very much
| >
| >Kris
| >.
| >
I don't know about the blurriness, but perhaps the icon cache has become
corrupt...
The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate.
Shelliconcache is a hidden file.
(1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'".
Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types".
(2) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete".
Reboot, perhaps twice.
This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as
4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the
drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left
of file names).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer
Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value)
1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter
2. Clicking the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion".
3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus
sign).
4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select
"string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter.
5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK.
6. Close RegEdit & reboot.
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"Kris" <krisshimes@aol.com> wrote in message
news:0db401c36bd8$0f199a70$a301280a@phx.gbl...
| Recently, our office upgraded the computers (4 people in
| the office)to Windows 98. Yesterday, out of the blue
| (probably due to human error) one of the computer's
| desktop icons turned black. The user of the computer
| can't figure out what she did to cause this?? Also, the
| words on the desktop, word, etc. are almost always
| blurry. How can I fix this without going insane? Please
| email me as soon as possible because she's going to drive
| me nuts!!!
|
| Thank you very much
|
| Kris
