Desktop Icons are changing. ???

Feisters

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I have a two year old installation of Win98, and my desktop icons have begun to change for no apparent reason. This happens after I return to the desktop from just about any task. For instance, all my Winzip icons will change to Word Perfect icons. And so on. Also, when I RIGHT-CLICK on anything, it takes FOREVER for the context menu to come up.

I suspect it's re-install time for the OS. I'm just not looking forward to it. This didn't start happening until I "uninstalled" SyGate NAT and went with a hard-wired router. (Which really trashed my other box - I haven't even bothered to bring it back up yet.)

Any ideas? Or am I pointed in the right direction with an OS reinstall?
 

HansXP

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Delete the file "ShellIconCache" in your Windows directory (it's a hidden file so be sure to show those) and then reboot. Things should be back to normal.