Re: OT: Desktop icons vanishing. How to get rid of them?

Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

David Brown wrote:

Joerg wrote:
Happens regularly on a Win2K machine: Coming out of hibernate of even
standby about 80% of the desktop icons are replaced by the generic
Windows logo. When I go into properties for each it's still there but I
guess Windoze messes that up. Why doesn't that surprise me? When I
reboot they come back but that takes too much time during the day. Icons
are IMHO just decoration anyhow and superfluous. Can one get completely
rid of them?


On my old NT 4 pc, the "programs" folder on the start menu used to
disappear regularly to be replaced by a single entry "eject pc".

It sounds like your machine is getting old and filled up - the only
permanent solution is a re-install.

And how exactly would a re-install help ?

This is one of lifes great mysteries... windows machines always seem
to get slower and slower, for no single reason that is clear to
me. You can defrag, virus scan, regclean and uninstall all you like,
they will still be slow. After a couple of years you need a re-install
to reset them!

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John Devereux
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