Odd Desktop Problem

[Gusington]

The game shortcut icons on my desktop have turned into either earth globes or Windows icons, please see attachment.

What the hell is going on here? It is not happening to any of my other application shortcuts, just the games.

Is it some kind of memory leak or something?

:o

[Staggerwing]

Are those in the same program group or subfolder? Perhaps all icons in that folder were accidentally changed. I'd also recommend a malware scan just to be safe.

[LongBlade]

I recommend you convert to Roman Catholicism and get a priest to exorcise your gaming rig. It's the only way to be sure.

Oh, and if the monitor does a 360, leave the house immediately.

[Staggerwing]

OTOH, maybe Gus will finally discover more about that unidentified flying object near his house a while back...

[LongBlade]

OTOH, maybe Gus will finally discover more about that unidentified flying object near his house a while back...

I'm just hoping he isn't abducted and comes back in a month complaining about how he enjoyed the aliens' anal probe.

[Staggerwing]

OTOH, maybe Gus will finally discover more about that unidentified flying object near his house a while back...

I'm just hoping he isn't abducted and comes back in a month complaining about how he enjoyed the aliens' anal probe.

Nah. He may complain, or he may enjoy. Not both.

[LongBlade]

OTOH, maybe Gus will finally discover more about that unidentified flying object near his house a while back...

I'm just hoping he isn't abducted and comes back in a month complaining about how he enjoyed the aliens' anal probe.

Nah. He may complain, or he may enjoy. Not both.

I know him pretty well. He'll complain he enjoyed it.

[Bison]

Try resizing your text dpi on the screen resolution page.  I've had a similar issue and that fixed it.

[Gusington]

My text dpi? Can you break that down a little more? Not sure what you mean.

How the hell did this thread begin to discuss anal probes? Nevermind.

'Wing they were all in a folder that I then emptied out onto my desktop.

[LongBlade]

My text dpi? Can you break that down a little more? Not sure what you mean.

I thought you were a techie?

How the hell did this thread begin to discuss anal probes? Nevermind.

Yeah, like that really needs an explanation.

'Wing they were all in a folder that I then emptied out onto my desktop.

Ah, that sounds easy. You moved them and they broke. They were pointing to their executables in that folder. Moving them (might I hazard to guess that you moved them all at once?) broke those links.

I'm not sure of the easiest method to fix them. I'd suggest going one by one and restoring a shortcut to your desktop. But there may be a faster way I don't know about.

[Gusington]

OK I fiddled with the dpi and some of the icons have been restored. Some are still not back to normal though. LB I kept the majority of them in a 'shortcut' folder and then just moved them onto my desktop to keep track of what needed to be played. Are you saying that just moving them from the folder to the desktop would 'break' them? They worked, they still launched the games...just the graphic image was nerfed.

[junk2drive]

Back in the XP days you right click the shortcut, click properties, click change icon and find what you want.

[undercovergeek]

They'll still do their job but the icons are looking for their cute little pictures in c/program files/my documents/desktop/shortcuts folder or whatever and now that's not the right path to the wee fellas cos you changed it

[bob48]

How the hell did this thread begin to discuss anal probes? Nevermind.

In best Groghead tradition, of course.

[Gusington]

Ah...ok 'geek, I think that is what LB was alluding to above. Love me some cute little pictures.

Bob48: of course!