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diurnal
12-12-2001, 12:09 AM
I like go into my documents and icons are different than they suppose to be. For example a text document has a adobe acrobat icon. Is this a virus, if so do yall know what it could be. I fed up http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif

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mjc
12-12-2001, 12:31 AM
Di, could be that the icon cache has become corrupted....you can try a simple test...boot up and bring up the startup menu, then choose DOS (you running 98 or ME?) at the prompt type cd\windows...when you are in the windows directory type del_shelli~1, then reboot.

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diurnal
12-13-2001, 05:08 AM
Ok it seems ok, for now. I didnt do what you said mjc, are you mad at me. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Does the system file checker do the same thing as you said.
You know the one in system tools.

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