[joehandy]

hello!
the oddest (well, one of the oddest!) thing has happened...a few days ago i noticed some of the icons are missing in my control panel...for instance in appearance and themes, the display icon is missing...in printer/hardware, the mouse icon is gone...does anyone know how i can get these back? or what happened to begin with? when i switch to classic view, same thing...help me?
please?
thanks!
joey

 

[Miz]

Missing icons in the Control Panel is often a symptom of virus infections as well as spyware infestation.

For viruses, a full system scan with an up-to-date anti-virus program. If you don't have one installed, free online scans are available from Panda and /URL=http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_pcc.asp]Housecall[/URL].

For spyware, download, install, immediately update and then run Spybot and/or Ad-Aware. Read the help files to familiarize yourself with how they work. I recommend you use them both since each tends to find things the other misses. Let them clean up any spyware found.

 

[Lance1]

Sometimes, for various reasons, icons disappear from the Control Panel in Windows XP. This is easily remedied by downloading TweakUI and doing two things.

Open TweakUI and select the "Control Panel" menu option. Make certain that all of the options you want are selected. Once you have done this, go to the "Repair" menu option, and make sure that "Rebuild Icons" is selected. Hit "Repair Now" Your missing Control Panel icons should have reappeared.

 

[joehandy]

thanks for the quick replies guys! i've got nortons anti-virus 2004 loaded and updated...also have adaware...i'll try the "tweakie" thing...thanks again!

 

[joehandy]

thank you SO much lance! worked like a charm!

 

[Lance1]

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