Lost Icon, trashed program.

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Patrick D. Rockwell

In my start menu, there is a program called "Set Program Access and
Defaults". It seems
to have lost it's icon. Instead, it has the default icon that is there, when
a programs icon isn't
there, or hasn't loaded up yet. I tried the change icon option, but I can't
find the original. Also,
when I click on it, nothing happens. I think that the whole program somehow
got trashed. I
don't want to re-install the whole operating system (Windows XP) but I'd
like to fix this. I
have an external hard disk with EVERYTHING backed up from 07/03/04 when this
still worked
and had an icon. Should I just dump everythiing in the backup copy of that
programs directory back
into the same directory on my computer?
 
Patrick D. Rockwell said:
In my start menu, there is a program called "Set Program Access and
Defaults". It seems
to have lost it's icon. Instead, it has the default icon that is there, when
a programs icon isn't
there, or hasn't loaded up yet. I tried the change icon option, but I can't
find the original. Also,
when I click on it, nothing happens. I think that the whole program somehow
got trashed. I
don't want to re-install the whole operating system (Windows XP) but I'd
like to fix this. I
have an external hard disk with EVERYTHING backed up from 07/03/04 when this
still worked
and had an icon. Should I just dump everythiing in the backup copy of that
programs directory back
into the same directory on my computer?
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I delete that icon in the start-menu anyway. It's just added clutter, and
MS only put it there becuase they had to.

Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs

bottom icon on the left pane.

Also, there was a Windows Update that moved this icon onto the main programs
column a while ago.

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
I delete that icon in the start-menu anyway. It's just added clutter, and
MS only put it there becuase they had to.

Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs

bottom icon on the left pane.

Also, there was a Windows Update that moved this icon onto the main programs
column a while ago.

ss.
Click to expand...

OT here, but have you seen the image posted here lately of what Amethyst, Cassandra, Black Aliss looks like? She is exactly as you described her a year ago! check it out!

http://groups.msn.com/upsdrevolt/shoebox.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=45

She is not the one with the long nice hair, and not a guy!
 
Synapse said:
I delete that icon in the start-menu anyway. It's just added
clutter, and MS only put it there becuase they had to.
Click to expand...

That explains your totally empty desktop.
 
Still, I'd like to get it back. It's not just the icon, it's the whole
program that doesn't
seem to work now. Couldn't I just copy my backup directory into the
directory
where it is now? Anyone else?
 
Here is another question. My "Set Program Access and Defaults" has a
creation date of September 23, 2003 even though I got my computer
on 02/12/2002. I've been reading on the internet that It was installed on
the computer from Microsoft Service Pack 1. So, I downloaded it
onto my computer AFTER I got it? If I want to re-do it, could I just get
this Microsoft Service Pack 1 again?
 
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