Your product has somewhat messed up my desktop
Sunday, July 25, 2004 by NingcManiac | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hello everyone! I'm a big fan of program skins and everything that comes with it and i must say I love this site, however, today I have a problem.
I was browsing through the site like I do every once in a while and noticed the "suite" section. While browsing there I noticed a nice OS X suite and decided to try it out. I hence downloaded "ThemeManager" and tried installing the suite, but before it let me it asked me to install all the other programs needed, so I did as it asked. The suite was up and everything was working wonderfully, I must congratulate whoever put everything together. But then I got a problem, I, not being familiar with mac's, unloaded everything and after some thought decided to stick to just using windowblinds and keeping everythign else the same. To do this i successfully uninstalled every program that I had installed.... but now I have a weird bug on my desktop. When I try to drag an icon, the drag messes up, and even more, I cannot put two icons next to each other.... look at the following screenshot:
The red arrows show where the icon is normally and where it should be, and if you take a look at the cursor you will understand the problem. I am 99.99% sure this comes from one of the programs I got from here due to the fact that I haven't installed anythign for a while and that the bug didn't exist 10 minutes ago.
I also tried rebooting twice.... that didn't work. Please someone help me as it is very frustrating!
I was browsing through the site like I do every once in a while and noticed the "suite" section. While browsing there I noticed a nice OS X suite and decided to try it out. I hence downloaded "ThemeManager" and tried installing the suite, but before it let me it asked me to install all the other programs needed, so I did as it asked. The suite was up and everything was working wonderfully, I must congratulate whoever put everything together. But then I got a problem, I, not being familiar with mac's, unloaded everything and after some thought decided to stick to just using windowblinds and keeping everythign else the same. To do this i successfully uninstalled every program that I had installed.... but now I have a weird bug on my desktop. When I try to drag an icon, the drag messes up, and even more, I cannot put two icons next to each other.... look at the following screenshot:
The red arrows show where the icon is normally and where it should be, and if you take a look at the cursor you will understand the problem. I am 99.99% sure this comes from one of the programs I got from here due to the fact that I haven't installed anythign for a while and that the bug didn't exist 10 minutes ago.
I also tried rebooting twice.... that didn't work. Please someone help me as it is very frustrating!
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Reply #22 Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:59 PM
Reply #22 Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:59 PM
Hmm try rebuilding Icon cache. iconpackager has that, just click that then reboot. It could be corrupted icon cache.
IPlural
Reply #23 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:05 AM
Reply #23 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:05 AM
stupid question on my part but have you applied the classic theme, then reapplied the windows xp theme?
IPlural
Reply #24 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:06 AM
Reply #24 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:06 AM
XX 
there is that
IPlural scratches head DuOH!!! hehe
there is that IPlural scratches head DuOH!!! hehe
NingcManiac
Reply #25 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:07 AM
Reply #25 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:07 AM
IPlural i don't understand what you mean by that
and XX where's this cache?
and XX where's this cache?
IPlural
Reply #28 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:23 AM
Reply #28 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:23 AM
it sounds to me that the Default Icons are not stored in the C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Icons directory or they have lost their association....
dunno how or why that would happen unless something else was running which interacted and caused things to go blewy
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there should be a restore point from before Theme Manager and or IconPacker were installed which would restore them to default no mater what, unless you have restore points turned off for some reason. wouldn't know why with an 80 gig drive though..
dunno how or why that would happen unless something else was running which interacted and caused things to go blewy
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there should be a restore point from before Theme Manager and or IconPacker were installed which would restore them to default no mater what, unless you have restore points turned off for some reason. wouldn't know why with an 80 gig drive though..
NingcManiac
Reply #29 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:25 AM
Reply #29 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:25 AM
I personally never turned off any restore point... but how do i check?
lovesblessing
Reply #30 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:26 AM
Reply #30 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:26 AM
IPlural, could trying to do a system restore/goback with XP without the disk? I had to do that the first time I installed ODesktop, me was way out a my league and the comp let me go back to a date before I did the install.
When I reinstalled the stuff, I had learned not to do what I did the first time, so haven't had problem since then!
When I reinstalled the stuff, I had learned not to do what I did the first time, so haven't had problem since then!
IPlural
Reply #31 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:27 AM
Reply #31 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:27 AM
All Programs
Accessories
System Tools
System Restore...
there should be a point where it saved a snap shot before installing Theme Manager
Accessories
System Tools
System Restore...
there should be a point where it saved a snap shot before installing Theme Manager
NingcManiac
Reply #33 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:31 AM
Reply #33 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:31 AM
there isn't a point before any stardock program, but there is one from where i installed something else, do I just do that?
NingcManiac
Reply #34 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:40 AM
Reply #34 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:40 AM
hmmm what can i say.... this system restore feature is great 
Its working now, on the desktop the icon gets messed up when i drag still.... but not NEARLY as much as it was before and i cna stick icons next to each other and move them freely! Only downside is i have to reinstall some stuff but thats it
Also... what does system restore...restore? I see that my files are still here... so what exactly was restored?
*damn.... 5:30 am already*
Its working now, on the desktop the icon gets messed up when i drag still.... but not NEARLY as much as it was before and i cna stick icons next to each other and move them freely! Only downside is i have to reinstall some stuff but thats it Also... what does system restore...restore? I see that my files are still here... so what exactly was restored?
*damn.... 5:30 am already*
lovesblessing
Reply #35 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:43 AM
Reply #35 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:43 AM
I think it just restores your main configuration to what it was before you installed whatever software caused the problem. However, I ain't the comp genius here, Mr. IPlural or Mr. Yrag could explain it much better than me!
IPlural
Reply #36 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:46 AM
Reply #36 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:46 AM
Registry keys,links for files and user configuration settings
lovesblessing hit the nail on the head
lovesblessing hit the nail on the head
lovesblessing
Reply #37 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:50 AM
Reply #37 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:50 AM
Yahoo! I got it right! Me and the Holy Cow learned something!
lovesblessing says thank you to Mr. IPlural!
Me and the Holy Cow learned something! lovesblessing says thank you to Mr. IPlural!
NingcManiac
Reply #38 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:53 AM
Reply #38 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:53 AM
IPlural, thanks SO much for your help, I could have gone crazy.... but this isn't such a bad experience... this system restore can come in handy! *adds it down to list of useful things to do*
Anyways, i'll keep browsing this site, looks like it has a lot to offer! (currently using a Mac OSX-ish windowblind... this rocks)
Anyways, i'll keep browsing this site, looks like it has a lot to offer!
(currently using a Mac OSX-ish windowblind... this rocks)
IPlural
Reply #39 Monday, July 26, 2004 1:02 AM
Reply #39 Monday, July 26, 2004 1:02 AM
glad one of us could help
there are some seriously fantastic themes, icons, cursors, skins on the site for sure.
I have a setup for this laptop which confuses the heck out of people when I boot it up, they wonder how I can run Jaguar Brushed Aluminum Graphite on a AMD 64 +3200...
all the way down to the bootscreen, logon, sounds and cursors...
there are even more creative ones on the site and you can find just about any style you could hope for.
[Message Edited]
there are some seriously fantastic themes, icons, cursors, skins on the site for sure.
I have a setup for this laptop which confuses the heck out of people when I boot it up, they wonder how I can run Jaguar Brushed Aluminum Graphite on a AMD 64 +3200...
all the way down to the bootscreen, logon, sounds and cursors...
there are even more creative ones on the site and you can find just about any style you could hope for.
[Message Edited]
SelfExiled
Reply #40 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:07 AM
I never said run ad-aware, I said run Spybot. And when you ran it, "it found some stuff". Don't guess now my firend, I hope you removed "the stuff".
I also asked you to press crtl-alt-delete, press the performance tab and read your available physical memory. It's in the lower right corner of the performance tab window. If your physical memory gets low, you will have trouble opening multiple windows, your cursor my stagger, and dragging icons maybe difficult too. The redrawing of the icons while they are being moved uses resources.
Since you have low memory and visual problems, I would recommend reducing the visual effects on your desktop. This might help too. Get there by clicking startmenu-control panel-system-advanced-performance settings. You may want to adjust that setting for best performance, but you can experiment with the settings and options there.
System Restore is a decent emergency fix. But, your programs installed after the restore point will have to be re-installed. Windows update may need to be re-installed. Driver updates may need to be reinstalled. I prefer a clean system than a patched up system myself. I've had a lot of registry crashes because of system restore. It sounds like you've patched things up for awhile. Good Luck.
Reply #40 Monday, July 26, 2004 2:07 AM
| I ran ad-aware when you told me and it didnt find anything, spybot now found some stuff but im guessing i just got this right now (was in some dodgy website lol) |
I never said run ad-aware, I said run Spybot. And when you ran it, "it found some stuff". Don't guess now my firend, I hope you removed "the stuff".
I also asked you to press crtl-alt-delete, press the performance tab and read your available physical memory. It's in the lower right corner of the performance tab window. If your physical memory gets low, you will have trouble opening multiple windows, your cursor my stagger, and dragging icons maybe difficult too. The redrawing of the icons while they are being moved uses resources.
Since you have low memory and visual problems, I would recommend reducing the visual effects on your desktop. This might help too. Get there by clicking startmenu-control panel-system-advanced-performance settings. You may want to adjust that setting for best performance, but you can experiment with the settings and options there.
System Restore is a decent emergency fix. But, your programs installed after the restore point will have to be re-installed. Windows update may need to be re-installed. Driver updates may need to be reinstalled. I prefer a clean system than a patched up system myself. I've had a lot of registry crashes because of system restore. It sounds like you've patched things up for awhile. Good Luck.
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Reply #21 Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:55 PM
And what do you mean programs installed? Stardock programs? Recent programs? or all programs?
I'm guessing its NOT a memory problem
Oh, btw, safe-mode boot didnt work
So after scanning... what do i do?