I may have spoken too soon, the problem went away but then came back
eventually. I tried deleting ShellIconCache in safe mode but "F/F" doesn't
find it. I shutdown into DOS and found it listed as SHELLI~1 but the "del"
command won't touch it. I also tried the "Rebuild Icons" command in
Tweakui, but that didn't fix it either. I also tried increasing the
Registry value of Max Cached Icons to 4096, but that did nothing to fix the
situation.

Any other suggestions?

"PCR" wrote in message
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http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q133733
Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel

The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate.
Shelliconcache is a hidden file.

(1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'".
Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types".
(2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot).
(3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete".
Reboot to Normal Mode.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q132668
Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons

This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as
4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the
drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left
of file names).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer
Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value)

1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter
2. Click the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion".
3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus
sign).
4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select
"string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter.
5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK.
6. Close RegEdit & reboot.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Warren" wrote in message
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| I seem to be having trouble retaining high colour rendition of my
icons. My
| desktop settings are for 32 bit colour and my desktop wallpaper &
program
| windows are rendered correctly but my icons are frequently downgraded
to 256
| colour renditions ( very poor if not 256 colour) which are quite hard
to
| see.
|
| Does someone understand where this icon colour rendition is controlled
from
| and how I can stop it from changing to low colour rendition?
|
| Thanks in advance for your attention and help.
|
|
|