Icons

[John]

When we open up a folder, the default microsoft icons are
reflected properly when in either icon views. But when we
switch to either list view or detail view, the icons
change to represent other programs/things.
Everything opens appropriately.
What could have happened? The user likes to use the list
view, but has problems finding the files when similar
files have wrong icons.
How can I change it back?

Thanks,
John

 

[Dan]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:59:02 -0800, "John" wrote...
| When we open up a folder, the default microsoft icons are
| reflected properly when in either icon views. But when we
| switch to either list view or detail view, the icons
| change to represent other programs/things.

The system icon cache is probably overloading. You can fix this using
the ActivIcons freeware utility from
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html

1-- in ActivIcons, go to its "Desktop Controls" screen and increase
the icon cache size to at least 2048, and then

2-- rebuild the icon cache. The options for rebuilding the cache are
on 2 small round buttons at the lower/right corner. Shut down any
programs running in the background, then click the round button
farthest to the lower/right corner (your system will reboot, and the
icon cache will be cleaned out).





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