Icon Problem

[donald 0]

A Few weeks ago all my icons changed to weired colours and the folders went to what looks like 95 design very blocky, I reinstalled Windows 2K and the problem was fixed but it is now back, It appeared after I accidently opened Netmetting.

 

Suffice to say it looks really ugly, on example is the IE logo on the desktop instead of being the light blue colour it is dark blue blocky and has has a hint of green in it, the Media Player 7.1 logo is all washed out.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the icons back to there proper look without a reformat?

 

Thanks

[ofelas 0]

1/Display Properties/Appearance/Icon Size, then reduce size one setting.Click 'Apply', then increase icon size by one, click 'OK'.

 

2/Search/Files or Folders/'C' Drive/named shelliconcache

 

3/Delete ' shelliconcache ' & reboot.

 

Hope this helps.

[donald 0]

Thanks that never worked though.

 

The icons remain unchanged

[thymios 0]

I don't know if this is going to help, but it's the only thing i can think of for this funny problem.

 

Download TweakUI from microsoft's web site.Then after installing it run it from controll panel and go to Repair tab.Select "Rebuild icons" and press "repair now" button.

 

This will rebuild all explorer icons plus it will get rid any unused icons from the memnory.

Hope it helps.

[donald 0]

No sorry that never worked.

[Cynan 0]

This can be caused by NetMeeting crashing. To fix it you have to load up NetMeeting again, close it down and reboot.

 

--Cynan.

[donald 0]

No that never worked not my day for getting this fixed.

 

Thanks Anyway.

[pikapan 0]

Try running regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics. Once there, look for a Shell Icon BPP key and set it to 16. Reboot and see if that helps.

[donald 0]

It was already set to 16

[donald 0]

Thank You every one for you'r Help I got an answer from microsoft.public.win2000.general

 

and This page