Missing Icons

gtghmgtghm New
edited September 2003 in Science & Tech
Ok once in a while I come in and I notice that some or most of my icons are gone down in the windows taskbar. The icnos while blank still work.

Is there a way other than a reboot or repicking the icons that will force a warm refresh or something like that, that will bring them back?

Thanks,
"g"

Comments

  • HotrodsunHotrodsun Salem, OR
    edited September 2003
    Do you have tweakui for xp install, If so got to the repair chain and select repair icons.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited September 2003
    Hotrodsun said
    Do you have tweakui for xp install, If so got to the repair chain and select repair icons.


    Never heard of that, I'll have to give that a try.
    Thanks,
    "g"
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited September 2003
    Yeah, TweakUI's rebuild Icons feature will do the trick. You can get it over in the downloads thread.

    However you might want to try and figure out why your icons are disappearing on you in the first place. Nothing fixes a problem better than eliminating the cause.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited September 2003
    Spinner said
    Yeah, TweakUI's rebuild Icons feature will do the trick. You can get it over in the downloads thread.

    However you might want to try and figure out why your icons are disappearing on you in the first place. Nothing fixes a problem better than eliminating the cause.


    Agreed... I was about to ask the question actually, about what makes them disapear?

    They really don't disappear as in no icons, the icon button is still there and if you click on it the program comes up fine, its just the little pictorial repsentation thing goes away...

    I rebooted and they are all back now and its been up for over a day and everything seems fine... It wasn't/isn't happening all of the time just every once in a while.

    "g"
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited September 2003
    So I figured out the problem with the icons...
    I renamed the drive that they were on by accident... duh...
    All fixed now.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2003
    Glad to hear your problem was solved.

    Before my last format, I had a similar problem - Icons in the taskbar (excuse me, Microsoft - I forgot, it's now the "Notification Area") would not appear at all. Since some of them were thing I had to click on occasionaly (like checking my Folding stats, for instance) I would end up rebooting.

    If the problem comes back, I'll be sure and try the Tweakui thing.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    gtghm... ya know, you could've fixed this with a format and reinstall, right? ;D
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    heres a weird one. On my mother computers (K6/2 , 500mhz, Windows 98) sometimes the icons on the desktop like rename themselves (after a reboot or whatever) to numbers. like some of her MS Office icons will be like "2" or "3" or whatever, like that, happens intermittenly, very strange, any ideas?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    Format and reinstall.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Format and reinstall.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited September 2003
    Geeky1 said
    gtghm... ya know, you could've fixed this with a format and reinstall, right? ;D

    LOL ;D;D;D
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited September 2003
    If someone says format and re-install one more time, I swear I'm gonna loose it.

    :banghead: :shakehead :tongue:
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    You mean "lose" it?

    Format and reinstall... :p
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    gtghm... ya know, you could've fixed this with a format and reinstall, right?

    :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    :rolleyes2 :rolleyes2
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    ;D;D

    Here's an idea that I have yet to try but should work well...

    Do a clean install of windows, install all the drivers, programs and whatever you normally use... activate windows/office if you use the XP versions, and then create an image of the install and put it on either some CDs/DVDs or a second hard drive. That way you only have to boot into dos, run the drive image program, re-image the drive, and you'll have basically a clean install. Keep all your docs on another partition/drive, and it shouldn't be too difficult to do, either.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2003
    Geeky1 said
    ...create an image of the install and put it on either some CDs/DVDs or a second hard drive...
    When I finally got around to putting my new 160GB drive in I created four partitions, the last one being a hidden image of my C: drive. Obviously this won't save me from HD failure, but it makes that frequent wipe/reload seem like less of a hassle. (And I frequently back up my data to another computer just in case...)
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