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bcpc43 - 18 Feb 2008 15:27 GMT

I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I have created several custom desktop
shortcuts using shell32.dll for the images. It was fine for about 2 weeks
but recently they all changed to a white page with a blue "E", similar to the
IE icon. Half of my desktop is now filled with these images and this
includes the hotmail icon. When I look at properties I see the image I
selected but it won't display. Sometimes I can change it to a different
image but I can't use the image I want. I even went to "windows explorer'
and found the correct hotmail shortcut and tried to send it to the desktop
but it just came up like the others. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Mark L. Ferguson - 18 Feb 2008 17:11 GMT

Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop
responding: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

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>I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I have created several custom desktop
> shortcuts using shell32.dll for the images. It was fine for about 2
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bcpc43 - 19 Feb 2008 15:03 GMT

Thanks but the url didn't do anything. Nothing was wrong according to the
output.

> Some Windows Vista functions may not work, or Windows Vista may stop
> responding: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833
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> > Thanks

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Brink - 19 Feb 2008 17:34 GMT

bcpc43;617305 Wrote:

> I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I have created several custom
> desktop
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> Thanks

Hi bcpc43,

You might try one of these other methods in this tutorial to create a
IE7 internet shortcut on your desktop to see if they are more stable
with the icon. You might also try rebuilding the icon cache to see if
that helps. See the related links in the same tutorial below.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/109883-internet-shortcut.html

Shawn

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bcpc43 - 29 Feb 2008 16:02 GMT

Thanks. It helped to clear the cache but the icon is still wrong and won't
change. What I found was that by changing the desktop icons to clasic view
they all show correctly, just very small. I then changed from 90 dpi to 120
dpi and they are better.

bcpc43

> bcpc43;617305 Wrote:
> > I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I have created several custom
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Brink - 29 Feb 2008 16:54 GMT

bcpc43;629709 Wrote:

> Thanks. It helped to clear the cache but the icon is still wrong and
> won't
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Your welcome bcpc43. Glad to hear that you got it sorted. Good idea to
increase the DPI size to compensate for the Classic Icons size.

Shawn

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oldgoat - 28 May 2008 15:45 GMT

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> I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I have created several custom desktop
> shortcuts using shell32.dll for the images. It was fine for about 2 weeks
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> Thanks

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t-4-2 - 28 May 2008 17:49 GMT

>> I have Vista Home Premium 32 bit and I have created several custom
>> desktop
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>> Thank

Try a system restore. Be sure to pick the date Before problem started.
Please inform of the results.

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