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[DAVID E]

Hey, guys-need some help big time. Yesterday MS notified me there were several (about seven) updates. I looked before leaping and saw most of them involved security updates, some a cumulative type. One of them has royally screwed up my desktop icons. Once the system uploaded and installed the updated it rebooted and all my icons looked like there was a double image of the text under each icon,. I thought I was having a stroke when I first saw it. I restarted and it went away. Unfortunately, today when I booted up, the same sitjuation again so, I decided just to see if I could drag/drop one or two of them elsewhere and see what happened. When I did there was a somewhat larger icon and a smaller one of the same thing? That would have been fine but I couldn't delete the small one because upon right clicking it there was no delete function showing. The larger of the two was the "real icon" and would work when clilcking on it, bringing up whatever program it related to.

I rebooted again and things got worse this time with icons of another program being placed on top of other icons of a different program. Bill Gates and his damn updates has really screwed this up. Anyone know of a fix for this short of a system restore? Has it happened to anyone else. I have Vista Home Premium with a new Dell XPS and i7 processor. Up until now this machine ran smoothly with no problems or quirks.

The first attachment shows what I was seeing yesterday and the other what I'm seeing now. Right clicking on that smaller icon just brings up the Catalyst Control Center.

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[Broni]

Rebuilding icons cache may help.
Restart in Safe Mode, and back in Normal Mode.

[DAVID E]

Nope-didn't work, Broni. I'm still getting overlapping icons and text. I can't get rid of the small icons. Here's what happens when I right click a good icon with no overlapping in the first attachment. The second attachment shows when I get when I right click the smaller icons that are a duplicate. The camera icon shows a different box with no means of being able to delete that icon.

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[Broni]

Try System Restore, and then install updates one by one to see, which one is at fault.

Important question! Among those updates, did you have any non-Windows update?

[DAVID E]

There was an Update Rollup for Active X Killbits(whatever that is) I uploaded but, most all were Windows related. An odd thing happened a bit ago. I changed the picture for my background and all the icons looked normal again except they were scattered about in places they weren't before. No big thing as I can move them just thought that was odd. I'll wait till ini the morning after shutdown tonight to see what happens in the morning. If all is well, fine. I still won't know what caused it but not to be one that looks a gift horse in the mouth I'll just accept it. If it's back to double text/icons again there will definitely be a system restore and this time the updates will be loaded one at a time until the offending one rears it's head. Then I'll back out of it and leave it alone.

[Broni]

Good news :)
For the future use, get this: http://www.watchingthenet.com/restore-desk...ges-lauout.html

[DAVID E]

Good deal, Broni. I bookmarked that link and wish I had known abot it before I moved all them around. All I can figure is that I can't help but wonder if something went amuck during the updating that caused an overlapping of the icons and text in that the same photo background I had before the updates was the same one I had copied and sent to someone to show my background and icons to and had used the program "Screen Hunter" where you can copy a small segment of anything or copy your entire desktop and it places that shot in your pictures folder.

Could it have been that during the uploaded of the MS updates somehow that photo of the desktop I had in my pictures folder got superimposed over the original desktop? It seems that's what happened somehow although all this wasn't the case prior to the updates since all icons looked normal and no overlapping of icons or text. As I booted up this morning I waited anxiously to see what would happen after I changed the photo last night and it looks as it should now. Does all this sound feasible?

[Broni]

Ehh, all back to normal. Stop banging your head :)

[DAVID E]

Hard to do sometimes. I'm one of the original head bangers. http://www.smartestc...tyle_emoticons/default/smile.gif

[Broni]

Wear helmet :)