Unable To Recognise Icons?
May 21, 2007
recentley i uninstalled my nero 7 software , the next time i turned the pc on my desktop icons have all changed to the type windows dont recognise, it asks me if i wish to select the programe to run it or try to direct me to the web , in the majority of my programe files i have the same format, i did have avg anit virus , ad aware profesional that reminds me when i first noticed the problem ad aware must have flashed up nearly thirty registry warnings that i never recognised , the only part of the c drive that works is the windows photo viewer, i have tried a system restore and have tried a running an xp disc over the top to no avail, i would really like to save this drive if possible , have run ad aware over it nothing found, i downloaded a hijack but windows wont run it , i have installed windows onto the other hard drive to get me going and hopefully give me chance to save the drive, pc is amd sempron 3000+ 512 ram two hard drives both reported good on a test ,
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Oct 24, 2008
I have a Western Digital 200GB second hard drive with two partitions on it and I wanted to make it a single drive. (both partitions were empty and had been formatted). Using "System Explorer" I deleted the partition but the drive capacity still reads 127 Gigabytes -- which was the size of the larger of the two partitions. In the "disk management" tab of System Explorer the graphic display shows one drive where there was two (and a longer "bar") but I can't seem to get the computer to recognize the new size. I've checked it, defragmented it, and begged with it but so far nothing works. I also downloaded and tried a program called "HDD Capacity Restore" but it says the "device has to be single on a channel", which it is not.
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Feb 16, 2007
how do i get it back? my total disk space in c is 37.28 gb. i had 80% free space in c before i did a clean reinstall as my hubby messed up something. im now down to 69% free space. what happened to it? the computer is working fine and i know windows xp home sp2 uses a lot of space but this is a puzzle to me. ive cleaned the disk and defragged but it didnt give me back much free space. i thought a clean reinstall is supposed to wipe everything out and put you back to brand new.
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Oct 9, 2007
I'm a new member to this site. Found some posts pretty interesting and hence thought that this would be the place where I may get the solution to my problem. I have a SONY DVD RW AV-G170A installed on my Dual Processor Pentium PC. There are some Movie DVD's which I can play and view movies perfectly. The drive recognizes the media and plays the movies But there are some DVD's which when inserted in the drive are not recognised by Windows AT ALL - under any circumstances. It says "Windows cannot read from the this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows"
THE DVD ROM IS WORKING PERFECTLY OK WITH OTHER SOME MOVIE DVD'S AND SOME DVD'S GIVING THE ABOVE MENTIONED PROBLEM.
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Apr 8, 2010
I understand that XP/sp3 does not need drivers for cd rom drives - nec/rw and sony However,xp does not recognise my cd rom drives
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Nov 23, 2006
Strange problem with my computer.I setup my computer to access my ISP by going to My Computer>Control panel>Network & dialup>Make new connection>etc. Put in all the data (telephone number and password). Tried it and it rejects (error 691 incorrect user name or password).Problem is that both user name and password are correct. I am able (using another isp account) to access Webmail directly at the isp using exactly the same password and user name.Problem appears to be specific to my computer.I am able to access the account using my laptop (using exactly the same password and User name and yes I have got the caps-lock off).
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Jun 26, 2010
DVD Operating, but will not recognise photo CD's, it see them as audio CD's.its on a Toshiba Satalite Laptop A105 S4344.
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Aug 20, 2005
I recently burnt data onto a dvd disk, on a laptop version of my computer and once back on my pc, i cannot open the data because the disk is not regonised as being in the PC.
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Aug 18, 2005
I am using Win XP and recently fitted a second hard drive. This was a fairly old Seagate out of an old Win95 computer (that died). The objective of the exercise was to be able to access old important data files. The primary hard drive is fitted as a Master and the secondary as a Slave. BIOS Setup recognizes the slave hard drive (cylinders, heads, size etc) but Windows does not!
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Jun 6, 2006
My operating system is Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600).My monitor is HP 1502 (15 inches) and my video card GForce Mx4000 ver M 128M DDR Ram.My system does not recognise my video card and monitor although when Windows starts I see the video card. My screen resolution cannot go beyond 800 x 600.I have gone to Control Panel, display, settings, advanced, adapter and it shows:adaptor type properties, vga save,non-plug and play drivers,manufacturer unknown, location unknown,Driver Start up system.
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Sep 20, 2005
We have built a computer for one of the disabled members of our Senior Group and installed Window XP on a 6 GB Hard Drive, however the computer only recognizes this as a 2 GB Drive.Can anyone please advise me as to how I can rectify this?
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Jun 2, 2006
I've recently just bought xp prof ed for my laptop which runs me but the problem is it won't recognise my pc card (nic) that i bought recently. Why is this as i've installed the drivers i got with it. Is it because the copy didn't come with the laptop so it doesn't even know i have a pcmcia slot? If so how can i get round it? I've looked on sony vaio site for related xp drivers but as far as i can see there are none for pcmcia slot
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Jan 13, 2009
I am trying to install some software but I keep getting the message that windows does not recognise a filename extension msi. I have also had the same message with scf and url extensions. Is there an easy solution? My OS is XP.
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Sep 17, 2007
Just one very quick and propably simple question. somehow i managed to change a setting somewhere that has made all the files on my computer have the file type e.g. .jpg or .bmp at the end of every file name, how can i change this so it goes back to normall.for example i have; picture.jpg istead of just picture as the file name
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Aug 1, 2007
First of all IE is currently running with add-ons disabled and in the tools menu the 'manage add-ons' is gray not giving me the option to change it. How do I change that so that I don't get that alert everytime I sign on the internet. Secondly there are no icons going to the desktop. I don't understand this. Even when you tell it or drag it there, it doesn't go???? The startup menu in msconfig is ridiculously long. I'm going to start running scans while I wait for instructions.
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May 29, 2008
I am thinking of buying an "upgrade kit", basically a much better mobo and processor, lots more ram, better sound and video card. It has No hard drive or DVD drives installed, those will come directly from my computer. I have XP installed. my question is, will it: Work great, since XP will detect the new hardware and everything is plug and play now Freeze up and refuse to boot since it doesn't recognise all the major changes
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Jan 4, 2005
I downloaded regcleaner2 to clean my registry and somewhere down the line I screwed up. Now I cannot use any of the short cut icons and I need to access my Outlook Express.
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Apr 15, 2004
Since I switched to WinXP, I'm having a problem. In many applications, when I go to "File Open", I am presented with a default view of pictorial icons, rather than text listings of the files directory. This did not used to happen in earlier versions of Windows. Is there a way to stop this, so that I would only ever see a List or Details view, and never a pictorial representation of the files?
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Feb 25, 2006
I have had numerous problems with my PC - including disappearing icons, connectivity problems (I have cable internet and all seems to be in order but I can't connect a lot). I also have settings on my PC that somehow change themselves. So, I've read through the forums and decided to try the Hijack this solution and was hoping someone could help. I also cannot use Internet Explorer - I get a window that mentions internet settings. Before that window came up I saw something to the effect of c:windowssystem 32 error.
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May 11, 2009
I had to have Windows XP installed because it had gotten corrupted and now I'm having a problem with the Icons on the taskbar hiding.I made sure that the Lock The Taskbar option is checked but its still hiding icons. How do I fix this????
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May 20, 2006
I have discovered that I am no longer able to change the colors of the icons on my desktop. When I get to that option in the Display Properties menu, the option is there but it is not active, it is grayed out or in this case beiged out. I am running XP Professional.
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Jul 19, 2010
On startup i have nothing but a blank screen ( with nothing but the HP invent default pic ) and have to enter via task manager to run anything.
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Mar 23, 2006
I am using windows home edition without an internet connection, first the welcome logon screen doesn't show even though i turn it on in my account. the second thing is that, my taskbar isn't showing any icons at all, every other toolbar on the start menu works besides the task bar,the only way i can switch windows is via CTRL + Tab. To me it seems to have been closed or completely disabled
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May 1, 2005
When I boot into windows XP, I login correctly but then nothing shows up. No start menu or any desktop icons. When I go to task manager, I don't see explorer .exe as a process running I know this has something to do with desktop
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Sep 27, 2006
I'm unable to drag and drop icons from desktop to an open window or open window to open window what happens is when i hold down the left mouse button to drag an icon from the desktop to an open window
the cursor changes to a black circle with a diagonal line going through it
what is causing this to happen?
ONLY copy/cut and paste works now
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Jul 4, 2005
Have XP Home Edition with all current updates. Do not have toolbars locked. By mistake, moved the whole Quick Launch Taskbar and lost it. When I went to Start > Properties > and enabled Show Quick Launch, I got it back with all my icons. The problem is that they are no longer displayed in the order that I want and I can not drag them to change the order. Sometime in the past, I was able to drag them to change their rder. Again, I do not have the toolbars lock set. I went to my application dataMicrosoftIEQuick Launch and changed the sort order of the folder but it did not change the
display order when I rebooted the system.
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Nov 26, 2006
My control panel has changed from a page full of icons to a long dropdown strip of small icons with there lables.There is no obivous way in to alter anything.
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Oct 20, 2007
i have searched everywhere to do this , no site seemed to know how to get rid of it so i am helping the troubled with this problem, well not really a problem but an adjustment..it is a piece of cake. first right click on the desktop, go to arrange icons by ,uncheck lock web items to desktop(bang it's done).
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Mar 30, 2005
I started my computer today and all of the icons pointing to Microsoft Office files, Adobe Acrobat files, and similar files have been replaced by generic windows icons (white icon with little window in the middle) they are no longer program specific icons.Yes, I have tried TweakUI to rebuild the icons and it did nothing, I have tried increasing then decreasing the size of the icons to attempt to force windows to replace them with the correct icons and that has not worked either. I have also tried to use system restore and that did not help either.This is really making me angry and I don't understand why it happened I have searched everywhere for a solution and found nothing.
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Jul 7, 2005
Down on the bottom of my desktop this thing keeps hidding my icons. I click on the little arrow to show hidden icons and they show for a second then they . disappear. I would like to see them.
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Dec 18, 2005
After a malware infection (Inet2 and SpySherriff - which took over my desktop) I cleaned up some files, directories and registry-entries. Now, after the cleaning activity as explained by techguys, everything seems going well. All programs do start without problems (through the start-menu or the quick-start taskbar), but there is a small drawback: my desktop screen shows only my wallpaper, there are no icons. The right-mouse click on the desktop also doesn't work (although the desktopsettings are accessible through the control panel). I use WinXP pro. what is wrong and how do I get the icons back on the screen?
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