Icons Have This Weird Overlay
May 19, 2009It's like this with all program icons that I place on the desktop as well. Any ideas?
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Icons Desktop Acquired Overlay
Feb 28, 2009Why has my icons on the desktop acquired an overlay and how to get rid of it.
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Why would my desktop items suddenly move around whenever I reboot? I'm not talking about program/file icons but rather the clock and calender on the right hand side of my desktop. It's a section I never touch--just a clock, calender, and image of the month (photo for calender). Now, suddenly, when I start up the computer, these things appear on top of one another or rearranged. It's odd, but irritating to me now. I can find no mention of this anywhere online. Some people have issues with rearranged icons, etc., such as in vertical vs. horizontal rows, etc. etc. But not random movements of utilities, etc. Anyway. Any suggestion would help.
Very Weird Sound From HP Laptop, 32
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Weird Problem With Graphic Speed.
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Apr 27, 2009I have a folder under my user profile folder, let's name it folder1. It's the same level as documents, pictures, etc. It is indexed. Index has been complete.
This is the weird behavior:
when i go to folder1 and search nothing appears. It's blatantly a bug because I search a text in the first filename i see yet it still turns out nothing!
But when I search from my user profile folder, it finds something from folder1.
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Weird Windows Sidebar Behavior
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Weird Sleep Mode Automatic
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Slowboot , Harddisk Makes Weird Loud Noice
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No HELP ICONS
Nov 20, 2009I have asked in the past, and so far I have not solved this issue.
On my laptop under Vista Home Basic, for a few months now, I do not have
Icons in my Help Folder. Just an X where the Icons should be.