Any ideas why my pc now looks like this, with all the icons missing, and the normal layout of windows XP??? http://img196.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img196&image=untitled3vb.jpg I've installed nothing new, nor changed anything. I simply booted up, and wham, like that ^^ EDIT: Oh yeah, the Log Off, Switch User, Restart and Shutdown buttons no longer work. I can go Start>>Shutdown, but then nothing happens. And a restart at the mains doesn't fix the trick.
There is a hidden icon cache file in your windows directory, ShellIconCache, which contains a copy of all the default desktop icons. It sometimes gets corrupted. If it does, your icons will go all black or they may display the wrong icons. If this happens, delete it and reboot. Will then repopulate the cache with the default icons. To delete the ShellIconCache: at a command prompt, change to the %SystemRoot% folder remove the hidden attribute from the file: type attrib -h shelliconcache and press ENTER. delete the file: type del shelliconcache and press ENTER. logoff and backon and the default icons should be restored. That should fix it.
