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WaxhawRon · 07-24-2008, 03:15 PM

Coolfreak, you're going to love this! This morning a Dell technician showed up to replace the card reader. When he did, the same problem was still there. he called in and they told me again to do a PC Restore. Well, I fired off an e-mail to Dell's corporate offices raising h3ll. I was going to to the PC Restore tonight after my neighbor got home to help me save my OE e-mails. At 4:00 I got a call from an American from Dell's offices in Austin. He took control of my computer, and in about 30 minutes had the problem fixed. The card reader now works great.

I asked him to take a look at the opaque icon names, and after seeing it he said it is a bug in Windows that happens sometimes for no reason at all. He also suggested moving everything to a new identity to get rid of this problem.

So, later on I will set up another identity and move all my stuff to it and be done with the opaque boxes. I will let you know when I do this and how it works, but it should work fine. I'll also let you know when I install SP3--I'll back up my key files as I move them to the new identity--be organized about it. Thanks again!

07-24-2008, 03:15 PM	#86 (permalink)
WaxhawRon Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 72 OS: XP Pro	Re: problem with desktop display properties Coolfreak, you're going to love this! This morning a Dell technician showed up to replace the card reader. When he did, the same problem was still there. he called in and they told me again to do a PC Restore. Well, I fired off an e-mail to Dell's corporate offices raising h3ll. I was going to to the PC Restore tonight after my neighbor got home to help me save my OE e-mails. At 4:00 I got a call from an American from Dell's offices in Austin. He took control of my computer, and in about 30 minutes had the problem fixed. The card reader now works great. I asked him to take a look at the opaque icon names, and after seeing it he said it is a bug in Windows that happens sometimes for no reason at all. He also suggested moving everything to a new identity to get rid of this problem. So, later on I will set up another identity and move all my stuff to it and be done with the opaque boxes. I will let you know when I do this and how it works, but it should work fine. I'll also let you know when I install SP3--I'll back up my key files as I move them to the new identity--be organized about it. Thanks again!