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Geoffers

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Is it just my PC?

 

My desktop and task bar icons for AUGI forum and CAD-tutor change randomly during a day, over two days, or a week... There are two variations for each but a few minutes ago a new one appeared for CAD-tutor - what's happening? It has been like this for several weeks; am I alone in this? Help.

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Desktop and taskbar icons? Windows controls them. What are they changing from/to?

 

I have seen toolbar icons in FireFox go haywire. Here is how I fix that:

http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2007/07/firefox-bookmark-icons.html

 

AUGI varies between, difficult to describe either 'square root sign cut out in metal' or 'orange and blue linked flattened circles' - hope I have remebered ok!.

 

CADtutor varies between ' out of focus flattened white pacman' and, sorry can't remember the other!!:oops:

 

no other icons change so it seems to be something to do with forum type website.

 

I did start using FireFox a few weeks ago but the problem started way before then...

 

I will try to capture them...

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Your desktop icons for CADTutor should look like either of the ones shown below (assuming IE is your default browser).

 

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If you're seeing anything wierd (as you have described) it is a problem with your OS or your browser.

 

Are you saying that you have lots of desktop icons for different websites but only those for forums are changing - the others are OK?

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Your desktop icons for CADTutor should look like either of the ones shown below (assuming IE is your default browser).

 

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If you're seeing anything wierd (as you have described) it is a problem with your OS or your browser.

 

Are you saying that you have lots of desktop icons for different websites but only those for forums are changing - the others are OK?

 

Neither of the above currently. I have only those two forum websites.:?

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I have only those two forum websites.:?

 

I suspect that if you had other website links, they would also be looking strange - can you post an image?

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'square root sign cut out in metal'
isn't that the vBulletin icon? The software that this forum runs on? SF has it to, as does Petmeds
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isn't that the vBulletin icon? The software that this forum runs on? SF has it to, as does Petmeds

 

Ugggh?:? :? :? :?

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  • 2 weeks later...
  • 7 months later...

10 months after the random icons problem stopped, I know not how or why, they are back. They're different though: Cadtutor is a 'TSF' diagonally across a square, AUG forum is a white circle with orange dots and a few purple squiggles

 

weird

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is this a virus? :?

 

Norton hasn't picked it up if so. but why did the problem disappear for so long before returning, and it only affects those two shortcuts, now they're correct again...:?:?:?

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Have you got all the latest Anti-Virus updates?

Sometimes i have to run the live update 3 times with norton before it

gets them all.

 

it reports all as up to date and runs in the background anyway, i dont initiate it:?

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