Problem in windows vista

ss4

Some of my icons on my desktop have got a light green square on them that covers the whole logo. This has only just started happening. All other user accounts on the same system are not affected.

I have tried the following things to try and get rid of this:

• A anti virus scan
• a spyware scan

They have not found anything wrong. I have also done a system restore to 2 days ago when the computer was fine and this hasn't worked. Does anyone know how to fix this?

f1charlie

I don't know why it might have happened, but you could try rebuilding the icon cache:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html?ltr=I

ss4

that hasn't worked for me

Littleali21

can u upload a screen shot so we can see what you mean?

x

Regeneration

this happened to me a few months ago and I was going to do a complete reinstall, but it dissapeared after a few days. The only thing that I had done was install some vista updates

CHR15

I would like to see a screenshot of that too! sounds odd.

Hold down Ctrl and roll the mouse wheel. The icons will resize one way or t'other. See if the green box goes with them.

ss4

I have tried the ctrl-mousewheel and did not work.
Here is a screenshot:

[Deleted User]

Have you updated anything recently?

ss4

I did a windows update about a week ago but this problem wasn't happening on sunday and I did a system restore back to sunday.

CHR15

First guess is that it is a problem with the shortcut arrow but IE on your desktop isn't a shortcut.

Try this:

Click Start => Programs => Accessories

Right Click on Command Prompt

Select Run as Administrator

Right click on the taskbar and choose Task Manager
Click on Processes
Click Explorer.exe
Click End Process

Now back to the command prompt (black box)


type: cd appdata
return

type: cd local
return

type: attrib -H IconCache.db
return

type: del IconCache.db
return

Now go back to the Task Manager window

Click Applications

Click New Task

in the box type: C:\Windows\explorer.exe

This will rebuild the icon cache (you may have to reboot after)

f1charlie

IE is a shortcut on my desktop.

I used Fxvisor to remove the shortcut arrows on my icons, so I experimented by using it to put them back again and IE had a shortcut arrow.

If your fix doesn't work CHR15, perhaps the OP could try running Fxvisor?

http://www.frameworkx.com/download.aspx?a=83&m=84

Just noticed, it's now called Vista Shortcut Manager.