Some how my Icons changed?

[jkac123]

I dont know how it happened , but some of my icons have changed? I want to change them back. i dont remember how?

[Steve R Jones]

Which icons? Did you change them to something other that the defualt?

[BipolarBill]

Changed? How? Position?

Rebooting will restore icons that have changed in appearance. TweakUI can "repair" icons too.

If your icons have shifted positions, there are freeware programs for saving their positions.

[jkac123]

i rebooted and they did come back. Still doont know where to change icons. Thanks!
I have no clue what happened to change them in the first place?

[BipolarBill]

If you don't have this, you should:

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp

They change because of high memory use. The icons are saved in a "cache". Under severe stress, the system will flush that cache and use it for other things. The icons will sometimes change when they are restored.

[rangeral]

If its the standard icons like my computer etc. you can rite clik the desktop and hit properties and go to effects tab you can change those icons from there.

[Buji]

Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q132668)

[jkac123]

Thanks Buji

thats a good artical!

[BipolarBill]

Yes it is. Unfortunately, all of those solutions (other than the registry hack and the F5 trick - which rarely works) require more steps than using Tweak UI > Repair > Repair Icons. Since MS doesn't officially support Tweak UI, they didn't include it in the article as a solution.

I've been using Tweak to fix this problem since '96 and it has never failed me.