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


"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jeff L wrote:

"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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?

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com


Right click on the desktop in an empty area (if you can find one on my
desktop!) to bring up a menu, hit the refresh option. That happens once
and
a while to my machines, but that fixes it without restarting.


Thanks, it really did it. The question is, why does Windows suffer partial
memory loss at random? Oh well, maybe that's just the "quality level" it
comes with. What else does it occasionally forget?


Win 2K in my opinion is the last OS hat M$ made that is reasonably any
good.
XP is just a glorified version with a bunch of extra features that make
it
less stable. Vista is XP with a new interface and DRM. Aero glass and
themes
will run under XP, and it runs much faster, on older hardware without
hogging all the resources that vista needs to keep it's DRM things going.


No Vista here, absolutamente not. A wee problem will be that I'll soon
need a cheap desktop to replace this one. And I don't want one with
Vista. Might have to do the garage sale tour.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Joerg:
According to some stuff I read on www.annoyances.org (can't find the
reference now - it might have been in their book of tips and tricks) ,
Windows uses Explorer to display the desktop. We all know that Explorer
occasionally crashes, and that would render a machine unusable. MS "fixed"
this crash problem by creating another little task that runs in the
background and constantly checks to make sure that Explorer is active and
has not crashed. When it detects a crash, it restarts Explorer, and you'll
see all your icons get reloaded as part of that Desktop restart.

Not sure if its what you see after hibernate mode, but it sounds like a
similar thing. I could never get the W2K hibernate/power management stuff to
work right on my machines. I turned them off. XP seems to work fine in that
regard, however.

Steve



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