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TomConnors
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      06-01-2009
I've got a strange problem with my desktop icons -- thay don't repsect
IconVerticalSpacing or IconSpacing. Nor do they show any text below the icon
itself.

I did extensive searching on the web for answers: twidling Auto Arraing,
Align to Grid, Icon Size, Refresh, change Icon size, change Icon text size,
and change display resolution.

It'd not a driver problem as when I logon as another user, the Icons are OK.

I'm not sure when this happned, but if I recall, I saw an a popup for
Assessibility popup earlier in the day. So I tried flipping Windows
Accessibility on and off including High Contrast options.

Dragging a new icon on to the desktop has the save effect.

Any thoughts?

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      06-02-2009

"TomConnors" <> wrote in message
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> I've got a strange problem with my desktop icons -- thay don't repsect
> IconVerticalSpacing or IconSpacing. Nor do they show any text below the
> icon
> itself.
>
> I did extensive searching on the web for answers: twidling Auto Arraing,
> Align to Grid, Icon Size, Refresh, change Icon size, change Icon text
> size,
> and change display resolution.
>
> It'd not a driver problem as when I logon as another user, the Icons are
> OK.
>
> I'm not sure when this happned, but if I recall, I saw an a popup for
> Assessibility popup earlier in the day. So I tried flipping Windows
> Accessibility on and off including High Contrast options.
>
> Dragging a new icon on to the desktop has the save effect.
>
> Any thoughts?
>




You could try resetting things to one of the preset original themes

Right-click desktop > Personalize > Theme

and then take it from there.to apply your preferred settings.

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TomConnors
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      06-03-2009
Changing themes had no effect.


> You could try resetting things to one of the preset original themes
>
> Right-click desktop > Personalize > Theme
>
> and then take it from there.to apply your preferred settings.
>
> --
> Jon
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TomConnors
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      06-06-2009
I found the fix -- delete all entries unter the keys

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \BagMRU

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell \Bags

-tomc

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"TomConnors" wrote:

> I've got a strange problem with my desktop icons -- thay don't repsect
> IconVerticalSpacing or IconSpacing. Nor do they show any text below the icon
> itself.
>
> I did extensive searching on the web for answers: twidling Auto Arraing,
> Align to Grid, Icon Size, Refresh, change Icon size, change Icon text size,
> and change display resolution.
>
> It'd not a driver problem as when I logon as another user, the Icons are OK.
>
> I'm not sure when this happned, but if I recall, I saw an a popup for
> Assessibility popup earlier in the day. So I tried flipping Windows
> Accessibility on and off including High Contrast options.
>
> Dragging a new icon on to the desktop has the save effect.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
> Tom Connors

 
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