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_Will_
11-17-01, 06:28 AM
this seems to happen quite frequently....once every few days...the icons will start sharing each others icon...just one...
_Will_
11-17-01, 06:29 AM
if u can't read that (its a bit fuzzy from resizing) the program its pointing to is winamp
_Will_
11-17-01, 06:30 AM
has anyone else seen this bug?
martyt
11-17-01, 07:07 AM
I don't have that bug but then again I don't run Winamp. Try the following - if you haven't already tried it.

Use TweakUI to rebuild the Icons.

C:\Documents and Settings\Marty Toomajian\My Documents\My Pictures\icons.bmp
Yodums
11-17-01, 07:09 AM
I've only had one icon do that.. My starcraft icon would transfer to a Counter Strike icon.
_Will_
11-17-01, 05:48 PM
yeah...i can use either tweak UI, powerstrip, or click properties and change the icon back....but its still a pain....

its not just the winamp...i've had pretty much each one duplicated at one time or another...

this exact same thing happened on my last fresh installation of XP before this one
trey_w
11-17-01, 05:52 PM
hey -Will-,

how did you get that screen shot,

i have been trying to get screen shots from Sandra and other Benchmarking software

the print screen key doesn't do it, i have tried it
Yodums
11-17-01, 07:29 PM
Originally posted by trey_w
hey -Will-,

how did you get that screen shot,

i have been trying to get screen shots from Sandra and other Benchmarking software

the print screen key doesn't do it, i have tried it

What did you do exactly? There's more to it then "Print Screen."

Try Print Screen then open paint and press paste and save.
martyt
11-17-01, 09:59 PM
Right, what I did was:

Print Screen
Open Paint
Edit, Paste in Paint
Cut out the part of the screen I wanted with the dotted line edit thing
Open a new BMP in Paint and then paste the cut out to the new BMP

There are also freeware and shareware programs that do this with more options and without opening Paint.
Softwebdev
11-17-01, 11:14 PM
Originally posted by _Will_
has anyone else seen this bug?

did you report this bug to MS by emailing your feed back in help and support ?

rebuild icon and it doesn't help ?

try to run this command line ok?

chkdsk /r at your C drive and choose rebuild icon when you are done

if it solves the problem, GOOD.....otherwise, report the BUG to MS
RedDeathDrinker
11-17-01, 11:18 PM
Originally posted by Yodums


What did you do exactly? There's more to it then "Print Screen."

Try Print Screen then open paint and press paste and save.


Press Alt-Print Scrn together, the open MS Paint, and paste ti image there......
Softwebdev
11-17-01, 11:32 PM
Originally posted by reddeathdrinker



Press Alt-Print Scrn together, the open MS Paint, and paste ti image there......

or you can buy software from americasystem...or americansoftware........they have PRINSCREEN.........something like that...........it's GREAT......
Leeua
11-18-01, 02:45 AM
this has happend to me also. My shared folder for Kazaa and such would change to something else. This was out of nowhere. I dont like sending stuff back to microsoft so a qucik uninstall and install of the program fixd it.
osu32
11-18-01, 02:54 PM
I've been using xp for a while now and have yet to experience any sort of bugs like you are having. If you haven't already, I would recommend running the windows update. I did this just after installing xp, and there were like 7 updates that it needed. Just my $.02. Also, where did you get that wallpaper? It makes me laugh. hee hee.
Yodums
11-18-01, 05:11 PM
Ya a cool desktop picture .. Matches the taskbar send me it :p
_Will_
11-20-01, 07:31 AM
Originally posted by osu32
I've been using xp for a while now and have yet to experience any sort of bugs like you are having. If you haven't already, I would recommend running the windows update. I did this just after installing xp, and there were like 7 updates that it needed. Just my $.02. Also, where did you get that wallpaper? It makes me laugh. hee hee.

yup have all the updates...

Softwebdev
did you report this bug to MS by emailing your feed back in help and support ?

rebuild icon and it doesn't help ?

try to run this command line ok?

chkdsk /r at your C drive and choose rebuild icon when you are done

if it solves the problem, GOOD.....otherwise, report the BUG to MS



nope didn't solve the problem :( reported the problem to MS in an email
_Will_
11-20-01, 07:35 AM
Originally posted by Leeua
this has happend to me also. My shared folder for Kazaa and such would change to something else. This was out of nowhere. I dont like sending stuff back to microsoft so a qucik uninstall and install of the program fixd it.

don't have kazaa but morpheus....its a little less buggy....but not by much :rolleyes:


but i don't think its this program...because the last time i had windows XP installed before complete reinstall this same thing was happening...and i wasn't running morpheus on old machine (limewire)


the problem only happens when i come back from a full-screen game and it rebuilds them all at once