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master353
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27. July 2007 @ 16:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Im not sure If I downloaded something or I did something but all of my ISOs and CSOs and roms and some other types of files look like this
[URL=http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen2lp6.png][IMG]http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/1829/screen2lp6.th.png[/IMG][/URL]

How do I change them back so they lok like this?
[URL=http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenxu4.png][IMG]http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/3405/screenxu4.th.png[/IMG][/URL]

Its proably an easy fix, Thanks.
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master353
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27. July 2007 @ 16:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
oops put in the wrong link, just copy them to the address bar.
gozilla
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27. July 2007 @ 17:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey master353 i have never experience what you describe, but i found some information that might be useful.

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If your icons appear garbled or use the wrong images, your icon cache file may be corrupt. This file stores Taskbar, Desktop, Start menu, and program icons so Windows can display them quickly. The icon cache sometimes becomes corrupt after a system crash or installation failure. However, if you delete the icon cache, Windows automatically rebuilds a clean one. In Windows 98 and Windows Me, delete the hidden file ShellIconCache found at: C:\WINDOWS\ShellIconCache. In Windows XP, delete the file IconCache.db found at: C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ USERNAME\LOCAL SETTINGS\APPLICATION DATA\IconCache.db (where USERNAME is your account name).
delete the file IconCache.db and restart windows. upon next start-up, windows should automatically recreate a new IconCache and should in theory rebult the icons as per default.

for reference, here is the website I got the information from
http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/...39l06/39l06.asp

hope this works for you.


master353
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27. July 2007 @ 17:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok, il try it now. Tell you if it workins in 5 mins.
master353
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27. July 2007 @ 17:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
And one more thing, I was reading that article and the title says disappearing shortcuts, I ffoyu have more than one accounts on the same computer and one account deletes something from the desktop, it effects the other people too. Thats what ahppened to me.
master353
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27. July 2007 @ 17:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
THat worked, Thanks.
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gozilla
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27. July 2007 @ 23:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
glad to hear it worked.


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