THE TALE OF THE LOST ICONS
~ ~ A Mysterious Tale of the Unexpected ..
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 by mike b1954 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Just a quickie ... hopefully ... for starters .. FF... XP SP3 Object Desktop all up to date
Being a user of Desktop Sidebar I have all my quick launch icons in a panel on DS and usually they are a mirror of what normally are my desktop icons ~ all working perfectly ... no problems at all ..
In the last few days , though I have had to a lot of admin / office work so I usually , for ease , right click , arrange icons by ... then select SHOW DESKTOP ICONS .. .Which usually come in right away and I can click and run other stuff from those as well as DS ....
Until Now ..
When I right click and arrange icons by , the second drop down window ..Name, size, type Show in groups , auto arrange, show in grid etc , is greyed out so clicking there does nothing .. so I cannot get my normal icons onto the desktop ....
For a quick fix , to see if it worked , I opened up Icon X and THERE were all the normal icons ... Just as if I had done it normally ... except that , when I unload IconX normally from the task bar the icons WOULD re-appear normally without the Icon x effects ..
But they don't .... I just get a blank desktop with all my Quick launch icons in DS working normally .. but NO onscreen icons !!!
Weird ..... If anybody has any suggestions please feel free to add them here, as I am totally flummoxed to the nth with this one ..
FYI : Most recent install was the Impulse Update , and the FENCES beta .. which I uninstalled to see if that was causing the problem ...
And finally -
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.2 (build 61 x86)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6200
Wblind.dll 2008/07/22 10:10:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/07/22 10:11:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/07/22 10:10:32
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 12:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Wbui.dll 2007/12/01 17:43:05
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe 2008/06/13 11:24:09
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Reply #2 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:33 PM
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Reply #4 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:49 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:06 AM
OK ..
BigDogBigFeet :
First suggestion .. Nope Right click taskbar toolbars no show ..
& Quick launch /toolbar did not work
Second Suggestion .. Tried Desktop X builder ( I have never used DX builder )
Third suggestion .. Force of habit makes me reboot/restart after an uninstall
Philly .. When I right click ..arrange icons by .. and click on that , the second window is greyed out ..
Chaps .. Its 5 am here UK ...please don't think me rude , I have to be driving in a couple of hours .. I just gotta hit the sack ... Please continue to post your suggestions here, I will get them next time I log in ..
Reply #6 Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:40 AM
If that window is totalled greyed out then I would say that you may have something very wrong going on. Minimum you should have the trash bin/can unless you some how deleted it.
I had Fences beta loaded also and uninstalled it, only because there is no close button. It didn't seem to cause any problems.
Just though of something else, in the Windows Task Bar right click in an open space. If there are greyed out items in the menu that comes up click Show Open Windows. If that's not it then you might need to think about any changes you made in the last few days. You will probably wake up in the morning and the answer will come to you. Good luck.
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Reply #12 Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:23 AM
I'm also beginning to think you may have to try re-installing Fences. I've uninstalled mine now and don't remember the tab, I think it was called Tools. But, it took images of the desktop including the first one being without Fences. The uninstaller asks if you want this stuff removed with Fences. In any case maybe something there will get your icons back?
Maybe JPB will see this.
Reply #13 Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:11 AM
on uninstall of the fences beta, if you're having problems with icons showing, try rebooting, and then unchecking, then re-checking "show desktop icons" for the desktop. the option may get stuck so you may need to do it once or twice. any luck?
Reply #14 Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:00 AM
You may need to re-install fences and remove the icons from the fences before uninstalling. Try that and see...
GT
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Reply #16 Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:48 PM
FYI .. I never got as far as even selecting an icon to deag into the fence , so to speak ...
Philly .. Usually when I am using DS there are no icons on screen at all , when I need them , I would bring them up as everyone else does .. but they don't ...wierd for sure ..
Big Dog :
No to both .. as for Object dock , I am ashamed to admit that I haven't used it at all since I discovered Rocket Dock ...
The fences installer did indeed take a snapshot but on exit unistall no luck there either ...
Reply #17 Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:04 PM
Reply #19 Friday, August 29, 2008 12:40 AM
Do you use restore points if so you can also try rolling back to earlier this month.
Reply #20 Friday, August 29, 2008 12:30 PM
Right , ~ I tried a restore all the way back to 21 August .. No change , unfortuneately ...
also , after a fair bit of fiddling about , I uninstalled all modding software ( windows classic sux!), ... No icons ..then reinstalled .. no icons ...
Shelby .. I got your PM thanks ... Just tried adding a new admin account .. guess what .. No change ..
The more I think about it , I believe it is definitely a registry setting that has somehow turned itself off .. but which one ? !
FYI .. I recently installed FF 3.1 On August 20th , would that be the cause of the problem ?
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Reply #1 Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:33 PM
You might also try firing up DesktopX Builder(Configuration Panel) and toggling the show/hide desktop icons there to see if that will make them visible again.