Weird Desktop Icons

[Denis P]

Here's the deal. A customer brought her computer in and about 3/4's of the desktop icons are the same. (Quickbooks icon) I have tried to return them to their proper look. The right icon appears in the box when I try a "change icon" thing, but it doesn't correct it on the desktop.
No virus detected.
No active desktop.
No shelliconcache.
No more ideas?????

Anybody got any ideas?

[MacGyver]

Does this happen only on the desktop, or throughout folders in Explorer, for example? Is there anything running on system boot that is screwing things up? Maybe a video card utility that remembers desktop icon positions, perhaps? Run MSCONFIG and see.

[DocPC]

Try TweakUI and use the rebuid icons options. Worth a shot.

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[Denis P]

Only on the desktop. Msconfig looks very clean for a Compaq. The only things running are Norton and Hotsync. I checked the staticvxd tab and disabled a couple of things. No dif.
When the icons first come up they are correct for about a half second, then they all change at once.

[MacGyver]

What about Safe Mode? Does the problem happen then?

[Denis P]

Safe Mode is good.... I got it down to something triggered in the system.ini....