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Whenever I restart my system the icons are never being the same before. Sometimes all the icons in the desktop looks like Adobe sometimes like winzip.

 

I use Tweakui to repair the icons.

 

I would like to know the real reason behind this problem

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I have heard from many people that TweakUI can cause icon problems. In fact, I couldn't use it many times due to that problem. Maybe your icons are getting messed up due to the fact that you have TweakUI installed in the first place...

 

Hey...could be

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Hi,

 

I have seen this problem on varying flavours of Windows. The icon fix in tweak can be problematic and is really a last resort. You may have a problem with the ShellIconCache file. If this is the case there are a couple of things to try:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q132668

 

This is what Microsoft suggest. If you're not comfortable with editing your registry download x-teq from http://www.xteq.com/

 

Install and run it and go to

 

Appearance\Interface\Icons\Icon Cache Clear, press the button and Apply the changes.

 

Hope this helps.

 

/Lee

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