[Brennen]

Hi, okay, I have a desktop icon problem. I didn't download anything that I didn't trust. The only thing I downloaded was a package of replays for StarCraft from a very trusted site (gosugamers.net).

I was playing a game and minimized it to read a message on AIM and all of my icons were completely gone. I was thinking it was just an error so I restarted my computer and came back to see this:

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s45/brennenlol/DesktopBug.jpg

The bugged icons are: CCleaner, AIM, Star Wars Galaxies, and Age of Conan.

They all work fine, except for the display error. I know this might be petty.. but it's still something that bothers me. The 'Skype' icon was bugged too, but when I went to check if it would work, it did, and it fixed it. I can't seem to get this reaction from any of the other icons.

I did a Virus Scan, SpyWare Scan, ran CCleaner, restarted, turned off, turned back on, and nothing fixes it.

I'd really appreciate some help, thanks.

 

[justpassingby]

Hi Brennen !

Right-click an unused space on the desktop => properties => settings. Change the color depth and click ok. This should rebuild the icon cache. You can reset the color depth to its initial value afterwards.

Here's the information from Microsoft :
Icons randomly change to different icons

Other possible solutions : http://smallvoid.com/article/windows-icon-cache.html

 

[Brennen]

Awesome, thank you.

 

[justpassingby]

You're welcome. I take it it worked ?