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Bob The Great
06-01-2001, 08:50 PM
Ok. I was messing around with system optimize (a program I was suggested my a sysopt person). And after rebooting most of my icons look really pale! They look like ghosts of what they used to be. The only icons not effected are in the system tray, and in control panel. I know the icons are ok, because I can go to a shortcuts properties and change it to the defualt icon, and it looks ok. But it turns right back to the ghost icon when I'm done. I tried reinstalling my vid drivers, registry, windows, directX, and tried some other things. But none of them worked. I'm not really having any problems with my system. it's just annoying having icons that look really pale!
golfcart
06-01-2001, 09:02 PM
It almost sounds like that program set the attributes of everything to "hidden" and you have your folder options set to "show all files". I could be way off base but that is what hidden file icons look like in that scenerio.
club_med
06-02-2001, 03:47 AM
TweakUI has a function that allows you to 'repair' the icons.

Perhaps that would help ?

cm
Bob The Great
06-03-2001, 10:50 PM
It's not the hidden thing, and I already tried TweakUI. But worry no more. I picked up a $5 HD in a AS IS bin at a local PC shop, and installed a fresh version of windows on it. Still if any one knows what happend it's always nice to know!
club_med
06-04-2001, 05:03 AM
What exactly were the steps you took in order to optimize your system ?.

Perhaps undoing them could solve the problem ?.

cm.
BFlurie
06-04-2001, 10:14 AM
Sometimes the "repair icons" function in Tweakui (all it does it delete the file C:\windows\shelliconcache) takes 2-4 reboots to do its work.
Bob The Great
06-04-2001, 04:01 PM
oh... Well know you tell me! lol

I don't exactly know what I did. I sorta went wild (oops http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif ).

I'm really enjoying my new HD! Best $5 I've ever spent on a computer! 630Mb SeaGate! It has way more then enough room for windows, and know next time I have to reformat I wouldn't loose all my other data! Heck I can even backup windows so I don't loose a thing!

Out of curiosity (and being to lazy to look it up). My AS IS drive is mode4, and my old drive is UDMA 33. What speed difference is that (oproxamite). My UDMA 33 is preforming allot better without the strain of windows.