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I've some files with stange icon overlay...
files icons appears regular but with a little black clock in the left-bottom icon...
what's that?
You can change the shortcut symbol that appears for icons that represent shortcuts.
If this appeared out of nowhere all of the sudden, I strongly suggest using the Trend Micro and Panda online antivirus scans. smah's FAQ will give you the links: faq760-3862
To change these icons, use the MS Powertoy TweakUI to modify the shortcut addition to icons:
Sounds like the icon cache got corrupted. Try deleting the file IconCache.db usually found at Settings/Username/Local Settings/Application Data, the reboot. It should rebuild itself.
Check this location in your Registry and see what value you have if the Key "29" exists.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIcons
Windows XP ships with a number of icon overlays not only shortcut icon...
The "black clock" icon means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.
This "black clock" icon is particularly baffling because you sometimes see it even if your system is not equipped with Hierarchical Storage Management (My case).
When this happens, it's because some program (typically a setup program) didn't check error codes properly.
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