New Vista Aggravation

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Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be will
start the program.
Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right click
and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
Changing the icon does nothing.
It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for this
worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service pack.
Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
garnered for his presidency.
Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet proof
by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.
 
bmoag said:
Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
will start the program.
Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
click and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
Changing the icon does nothing.
It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
this worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
pack.
Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
garnered for his presidency.
Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet
proof by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.
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It seems you may be the only person having this problem, so perhaps it isn't
Vista but your specific system.
 
bmoag said:
Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
will start the program.
Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
click and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
Changing the icon does nothing.
It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
this worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
pack.
Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
garnered for his presidency.
Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet
proof by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.
Click to expand...


Troll.
 
It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
this worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
pack.
Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
garnered for his presidency.
Click to expand...

With an attitude like that, you can forget getting any help around here.

This problem is exceptionally rare - I haven't seen it reported before.
This suggests it's more likely a problem specific to your machine, such as
the graphics driver.

To blame Vista at this stage is illogical and irrational.

SteveT
 
bmoag said:
Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
will start the program.
Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
click and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed
out. Changing the icon does nothing.
Click to expand...

<snip rant>
I've seen similar behavior in XP where the icon cache got corrupt.
There was an option in TweakUI for XP to rebuild icons which fixed it,
but I don't know of any utilities with this option for Vista. I did
come across this in another forum, it might be worth a try:
 
Mr GRiM said:
With an attitude like that I am surprised that anyone decided to help
him, people who post garbage like that need their Posts reported and
removed so as not to aggravate the other readers and people who are just
trying to seek advice on their individual problems.

This person obviously has a very negative attitude towards the OS which
is unjustified when his problems are more likely hardware problems and a
corrupted icon cache.
Click to expand...

These kinds of people can be aggravating. But, sometimes when
someone, like barman58 above, provides a solution, it may be of
help to someone else with legitimate similar problems. I may never
need it, but I saved the link provided by barman58, for future reference.
 
Mr. Grim you should be more objective.
I wrote this post knowing full well that a reboot of the system would
restore the desktop icons to their proper state.
My point, which I think is totally justified, is that we are decades into
GUI based OSes and the OS should be sophisticated enough that the GUI is
itself rock stable and not subject to the random lunacy that users
experience.
I am not a fan of Apple (half the hardware for three times the price) but
that OS is more stable than Vista.
An OS as needlessly complex and bloated as Vista should at least be able to
shut down and boot itself reliably. It cannot. In Vista the user
preferences, icon caches and the like are easily corrupted by random events
within this unstable OS. To say that XP is subject to the same problems is a
further indictment of the lousy quality of the programming that went into
Vista because it is no better than the older OS --it is actually worse.
I try to use Vista but I dual boot into XP on the same Quad core uber
machine: except for the boot time itself every single operation is faster
and more stable on XP than on Vista. You can time by your wristwatch the
differences in program start ups, file transfers and program installations.
SP1 made little or no difference in Vista performance.
The penalty Microsoft imposes on dual booters still: destruction of the
Vista restore files.
Microsoft at times seems to be run by malignant half wits.
I hope Microsoft buys Yahoo. They deserve each other.

If Apple would release its OS in a form compatible with x86 BIOSes they
could still possibly topple Microsoft. It is astounding to me that Apple's
lawyers have been able to squelch the underground efforts to create and
distribute the necessary software or that Apple still thinks its best
long-term strategy is peddling its overpriced/underpowered sizzleware.
 
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