XP loses icons. THey come back after a restart

[Justin218]

Sometimes a few icons will just get lost. XP will then just show a generic program icon. After a restart all is well again though. What is going on here?

 

[Servanya]

Windows has an icon cache. Basically, you have too many icons, and they can't all fit in the cache.
THere is a registry setting - something like ShellConCache (I don't remember exactly what it is). You can change the entry in the registry to allow for a larger cache.
Sorry I can't remember the registry entry, but that should lead you in the right direction.

 

[Justin218]

Can anyone elaborate more on this? Can't find much info

 

[bacillus]

xp clears the desktop icons that aren't being used after a certain length of time.
have you unchecked this option under, IIRC, properties/appearance/customise?