Desktop mess

[Filo]

Sometimes when windows 98 refresh my desktop all the icons switch between them. <br>
Ex: all (*.doc) normaly word files take the form of autocad drawing files. <br>
The same thing happen in the task bar.<br>
Someone know the solution?<br>
Thank's<br>

 

[Warcorp]

Filo, this is typically a memory issue. Windows has to prioritize the user segments (the chunks of memory it uses to manage 16/32bit sessions). When it runs low, it tell the OS to &quot;make do with what you've got&quot; and it is that point the win9x kernel gets flakey. When it happens, check your avaiable user resource. I'll bet it's low. Now for the fix, well there are a couple ways to approach it. Check to see what else is running. Typically user segments not being released is do to a sloppy application. You can also try running a memory optimizer, a &quot;memory defrag&quot; as it were that follows the windows housekeeping routines and cleans up after it.<br>
<p>Jim Collin<br><a href=mailto:Jim@collin.cc>Jim@collin.cc</a><br><a href=

http://www.collin.cc>Collin

Technologies</a><br>Consumer Technology Integration<br>

 

[tonykerr]

Make folders on the desktop and move the icons into them by catagory, (just like your real desktop.)

 

[reghakr]

Try deleting the hidden shelliconcache file in c:\windows<br><br>reghakr