New Vista Aggravation

Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be will
start the program.
Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right click
and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
Changing the icon does nothing.
It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for this
worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service pack.
Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
garnered for his presidency.
Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet proof
by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.

"bmoag" <-> wrote in message
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> Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
> labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
> will start the program.
> Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
> click and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
> Changing the icon does nothing.
> It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
> this worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
> pack.
> Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
> garnered for his presidency.
> Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet
> proof by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
> Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.
>
It seems you may be the only person having this problem, so perhaps it isn't
Vista but your specific system.

"bmoag" <-> wrote in message
news:1F7B4DE0-49D9-46F5-A84F-...
> Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
> labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
> will start the program.
> Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
> click and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
> Changing the icon does nothing.
> It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
> this worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
> pack.
> Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
> garnered for his presidency.
> Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet
> proof by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
> Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.


Troll.

> It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
> this worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
> pack.
> Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush has
> garnered for his presidency.

With an attitude like that, you can forget getting any help around here.

This problem is exceptionally rare - I haven't seen it reported before.
This suggests it's more likely a problem specific to your machine, such as
the graphics driver.

To blame Vista at this stage is illogical and irrational.

SteveT

"bmoag" <-> wrote in message
news:1F7B4DE0-49D9-46F5-A84F-...
> Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
> labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
> will start the program.
> Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
> click and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed
> out. Changing the icon does nothing.

<snip rant>
I've seen similar behavior in XP where the icon cache got corrupt.
There was an option in TweakUI for XP to rebuild icons which fixed it,
but I don't know of any utilities with this option for Vista. I did
come across this in another forum, it might be worth a try:

> Launch an elevated CMD window, ie Right click, Run as Administrator...
> Shutdown Explorer Process from the Task Manager
> In the CMD window go to C:\Users\<ProfileName>\AppData\Local
> Do the following command: attrib -H IconCache.db
> Do the following command: del IconCache.db
> Do the following command: start explorer

> This should rebuild the Icon Cache...

--
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No matter where you go, there you are!

bmoag;880295 Wrote:
> Today about half of the program icons on my desktop are invisible. The
> labels are still there and double clicking on where the icon should be
> will
> start the program.
> Some of the icons give you the option to "change icon" when you right
> click
> and select properties; for some the "change icon" box is greyed out.
> Changing the icon does nothing.
> It is astounding how shaky, meaning garbage level, the programming for
> this
> worst of all Microsoft OSes remains after all this time and a service
> pack.
> Microsoft has earned all the confidence for its programming that Bush
> has
> garnered for his presidency.
> Things like user preferences, desktop schemes and all should be bullet
> proof
> by this time but they are as stalwart as the reigistry.
> Windows 7 is likely to be more of the same schlock.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...e-rebuild.html


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understand.,- frank herbert

With an attitude like that I am surprised that anyone decided to hel
him, people who post garbage like that need their Posts reported an
removed so as not to aggravate the other readers and people who are jus
trying to seek advice on their individual problems.

This person obviously has a very negative attitude towards the OS whic
is unjustified when his problems are more likely hardware problems and
corrupted icon cache

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"Mr GRiM" <> wrote in message
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>
> With an attitude like that I am surprised that anyone decided to help
> him, people who post garbage like that need their Posts reported and
> removed so as not to aggravate the other readers and people who are just
> trying to seek advice on their individual problems.
>
> This person obviously has a very negative attitude towards the OS which
> is unjustified when his problems are more likely hardware problems and a
> corrupted icon cache.
>
>
> --
> Mr GRiM
>

These kinds of people can be aggravating. But, sometimes when
someone, like barman58 above, provides a solution, it may be of
help to someone else with legitimate similar problems. I may never
need it, but I saved the link provided by barman58, for future reference.

Mr. Grim you should be more objective.
I wrote this post knowing full well that a reboot of the system would
restore the desktop icons to their proper state.
My point, which I think is totally justified, is that we are decades into
GUI based OSes and the OS should be sophisticated enough that the GUI is
itself rock stable and not subject to the random lunacy that users
experience.
I am not a fan of Apple (half the hardware for three times the price) but
that OS is more stable than Vista.
An OS as needlessly complex and bloated as Vista should at least be able to
shut down and boot itself reliably. It cannot. In Vista the user
preferences, icon caches and the like are easily corrupted by random events
within this unstable OS. To say that XP is subject to the same problems is a
further indictment of the lousy quality of the programming that went into
Vista because it is no better than the older OS --it is actually worse.
I try to use Vista but I dual boot into XP on the same Quad core uber
machine: except for the boot time itself every single operation is faster
and more stable on XP than on Vista. You can time by your wristwatch the
differences in program start ups, file transfers and program installations.
SP1 made little or no difference in Vista performance.
The penalty Microsoft imposes on dual booters still: destruction of the
Vista restore files.
Microsoft at times seems to be run by malignant half wits.
I hope Microsoft buys Yahoo. They deserve each other.

If Apple would release its OS in a form compatible with x86 BIOSes they
could still possibly topple Microsoft. It is astounding to me that Apple's
lawyers have been able to squelch the underground efforts to create and
distribute the necessary software or that Apple still thinks its best
long-term strategy is peddling its overpriced/underpowered sizzleware.