OMG this is driving me crazy - WINXP - something keeps renaming my ICONS

[schdaddy]

i know this sounds silly but i can't figure it out
if i rename "MY COMPUTER" "MY DOCUMENTS" "MY NETWORKS PLACES" "INTERNET EXPLORER" or "MICROSOFT OUTLOOK"
by the end of the day they automatically rename themselves back to their default names

NO other icons are effected, just MS icons
i've scanned for virus, spyware, etc - nothing

any ideas?

 

[TheWart]

a long shot, but maybe it has something to do with you being logged in as administrator (or not administrator). I think it will revert them back if you are logged in as admin. But if you are a 'normal' user it wont. Not sure though.

 

[schdaddy]

Rarely, do I ever login as admin so it's not that.

... i guess the mystery continues

 

[spyordie007]

Another long shot (you can tell we're venturing guesses at this point) would be SFC. It would explain why they dont get renamed right away at least...

-Spy

 

[xfactordomine]

gremlins..

 

[NogginBoink]

Verrrrry interesting problem.

I renamed My Computer and so far it's "stuck" properly. I'm doing a test on another machine now.

I do know that SFC won't be the culprit here.

Aha! It seems to be stored in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2db-08002b30309d}

But that still doesn't explain why it's changing. Do this: rename "My Computer" and ensure that the new name shows up there in the registry. When it names itself back, check that location in the registry. Maybe that'll give us some clues...

 

[LiLithTecH]

It maybe the the DESKTOP.INI is not updating properly or was over written
with the Administrator Profile.

You can edit the Desktop.ini file to see if it is set to the Admin Profile.

The file is hidden, so you must change it to "Show all hidden files" in Explorer.

With NotePad under

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Administrator (remove adminstrator)

Then save the file.

 

[schdaddy]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Another long shot (you can tell we're venturing guesses at this point) would be SFC. It would explain why they dont get renamed right away at least...

-Spy

I assuming you're talking about the System File Checker (SFC) command, if so I'm not running SFC.

 

[schdaddy]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Verrrrry interesting problem.

I renamed My Computer and so far it's "stuck" properly. I'm doing a test on another machine now.

I do know that SFC won't be the culprit here.

Aha! It seems to be stored in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2db-08002b30309d}

But that still doesn't explain why it's changing. Do this: rename "My Computer" and ensure that the new name shows up there in the registry. When it names itself back, check that location in the registry. Maybe that'll give us some clues...

just renamed "My Computer" and it is in the registry as it is on the Desktop currently - i'll check back when it changes

 

[schdaddy]

Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
It maybe the the DESKTOP.INI is not updating properly or was over written
with the Administrator Profile.

You can edit the Desktop.ini file to see if it is set to the Admin Profile.

The file is hidden, so you must change it to "Show all hidden files" in Explorer.

With NotePad under

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner=Administrator (remove adminstrator)

Then save the file.

my desktop.ini looks like this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@shell32.dll,-21774


nothing with OWNER=




BTW, this problem doesn't effect my ADMIN account for some reason 😕

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: schdaddy

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Another long shot (you can tell we're venturing guesses at this point) would be SFC. It would explain why they dont get renamed right away at least...

-Spy

I assuming you're talking about the System File Checker (SFC) command, if so I'm not running SFC.

I dont think it's SFC at this point. But how in the hell are you not running SFC? Are you running NT?

-Spy

 

[VirtualLarry]

BTW, this problem doesn't effect my ADMIN account for some reason 😕

Perhaps your problem is simply that your user registry file is corrupted, and sometimes after other registry file manipulations, the system cannot read the chaged names back out, so re-generates default names (and re-writes the registry entires).

 

[LiLithTecH]

SFC does not protect ICO, INI files.

A way to rule it out would be to:

START\RUN

type SFC /PURGECACHE

This will clear the cache and restore to defaults.