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30-04-2008
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| CD Freaks Member Join Date: Jun 2006
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| Icons won't open I use XP with SP2...when I click on my IE or Hotmail icon they don't always open. I usually have to click on them a few times, but it locks up my pc occassionally. When I reboot, I get an eror saying IE is still running. I have checked for viruses, spyware, malware, etc. and the programs say nothing is wrong. I use AVG, SpyBot Search&Destroy, Ad-Aware Pro, CCleaner and all is fine. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Also when I close a folder or a program and go back to my desktoip, is it normal for my icon to refresh themselves? Could this be a result of the above problem? |
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30-04-2008
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| Re: Icons won't open first part of your question..... I dont' know last question ... This is perfectly normal windows behaviour. All that is happening is that the desktop environment is refreshing itself. Sometimes this happens while windows is busy (like closing the processes from your application) and it does take a couple of seconds to refresh the icons. There are ways to stop it from happening, but it is inadviseable to do so, because the inability to refresh can cause the windows explorer itself to stop working. You can tell when this happens because you will be staring at the background image and nothing else. there is a fix..if you want to disable it....although i really don't think you want to do that.. ([HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] "NoNetCrawling"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "Max Cached Icons"="12000" )
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01-05-2008
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| CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Chicago Land Area
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| Re: Icons won't open Quote:
Have you done all updates for IE ? Some toolbars try to take over IE and IE does not always like it. bean55
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| CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Chicago Land Area
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| Re: Icons won't open Quote:
bean55
__________________ New Cruncher : Core 2 Quad Q6600,Intel DG35EC MOBO,PNY 2048 Dual Ram ( 2 x 1048 ) x 2 = 4096,ThermalTake 500 PSU, evga GeForce 8800 GS 384 MB DDR3, WD 80 GB SATA HD , Lite on LH-20A1p DVDRW Fold for team 13505 http://folding.stanford.edu/ Help us save some lives by joining the Distributed Computing Teams : F@H or WGC My CRUNCH Force : 12 On F@H with 5 running WGC also At work : 4 units running 24/7 Testing 2 new quads 24/7 2=smp 1=gpu each At Home : 1 unit running 24/7 3 units running 24/6 2 units running 24/5 On good weeks | |
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02-05-2008
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| CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Chicago Land Area
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| Re: Icons won't open And toolbar ? May need to uninstall the toolbar ( if you have one ) and reload it. Is it happening all the time? or just when you first start on the computer after not doing anything for awhile? Some icons/programs come out of hibernation mode very slowly.Clicking on it more than once also slows it down even more because it thinks you want it to start more than once. bean55
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