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Disappering icons

Postby murjax » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:14 pm

Have you ever had icons suddenly disapper from you desktop? That's what happened to me. May you please explain this?
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Re: Disappering icons

Postby Mushroom_Farmer » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:41 pm

Usually it's caused by low recources or low memory. Find out many processes are running in the background. Have you tried to refresh your desktop when this happens?
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Re: Disappering icons

Postby murjax » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:42 pm

Usually it's caused by low recources or low memory. Find out many processes are running in the background. Have you tried to refresh your desktop when this happens?
No, I haven't, but I do know that there were too many programs in the start menu. Maybe that's the problem.  ::)
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Re: Disappering icons

Postby Politically Incorrect » Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:33 pm

It will usually happen every 60 days if you have it set to run desktop cleanup wizard ;)
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Re: Disappering icons

Postby murjax » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:35 am

It will usually happen every 60 days if you have it set to run desktop cleanup wizard ;)
Well it's not that because I don't run desktop cleanup wizard. It hasn't happened since so I hope I am done with it.  :)
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