Help! Something wierd is happening to my Control Panel!

[Sensibilium]

Sometimes when I open Explorer, the icons for the Control Panel, and Printers change into a document icon, entitled &quot;W:\&quot; and if I attempt to access it a 'W:\ is not accessable - this folder has been moved or removed' dialog appears.<br><br>This can sometimes cause Explorer to Not Respond, and I have to manually kill the task, at other times if I refresh then they change back to 'Control Panel' and 'Printers' and both are accessable!<br><br>Does anyone know why this is happening, and what I can do to prevent it from happening again?<br><br>The machine this happens on, is installed as a Web Server using PWS, and I also have MDAC installed, could these be the culprits?<br><br>Thanks in advance. <p>ahdkaw<br><a href=mailto:ahdkaw@sensibilium.com>ahdkaw@sensibilium.com</a><br><a href=

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you do visit my sites - be warned! You must be of a discordian nature...'

 

[Karl Blessing]

it has happen to me before having two W:\ I usally just hit F5(also accessible by pressing right click...refresh) and refresh the display. of course I'd be interested to know why it shows it like so. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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</a><br>Experienced in , or have messed with : VC++, Borland C++ Builder, VJ++6(starting),VB-Dos, VB1 thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, Borland C++ 3(DOS), Borland C++ 4.5, HTML,Visual InterDev 6, ASP(WebProgramming), QBasic(least i didnt start with COBOL)

 

[fenris]

I too have had the problem of mixed up drive letters, extra cd-roms and confused icons and most of the time a simple refresh clears things up. If that doesn't work, a reboot sure does.<br><br>What I found though, is sometimes a program takes over a file association and imposes it's own icon onto the file. The only way to fix this is to reset the file associations by going into windows explorer view/options/file types<br><br><br><br>fenris

 

[Karl Blessing]

would either of you happen to use a Mass Storage device other than a Harddrive or CDrom, for example, a ZIP Drive? <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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</a><br>Experienced in , or have messed with : VC++, Borland C++ Builder, VJ++6(starting),VB-Dos, VB1 thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, Borland C++ 3(DOS), Borland C++ 4.5, HTML,Visual InterDev 6, ASP(WebProgramming), QBasic(least i didnt start with COBOL)

 

[Sensibilium]

I use a CardPort Swift for my Olympic digicam thru USB, but that's been installed for ages, and it is only recently that this 'W:/' occurs...<br><br>I also have 2 other network drives, but these are never affected.<br><br>Refreshing Explorer does work, but it's so annoying, if only I knew why it was happening in the 1st place... <p>ahdkaw<br><a href=mailto:ahdkaw@sensibilium.com>ahdkaw@sensibilium.com</a><br><a href=

http://sensibilium.com/>Sensibilium</a><br>'If

you do visit my sites - be warned! You must be of a discordian nature...'

 

[fenris]

Karl, <br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I used to use a zip drive, but I haven't touched it for a while. I noticed some of my NT machines at work experienced similar hiccups. I am quite currious as to why this would happen.<br><br><br>fenris<br>

 

[Guest_imported]

I think it's related to a corrupt icon buffer.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sorry I can't be more specific about locations, registry keys etc... It might give you somewhere to start research though.<br><br>good luck

 

[PeterKV]

Somebody said something about an &quot;Icon Cache&quot; but not knowing the relevant registry key(s).<br><br>Well perhaps increasing the maximum number of cacheable icons might improve things for the original poster.<br><br>To that end, fire up RegEdit and go to:<br><br>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer<br><br>and create a string value (if one doesn't already exist)<br><br>and set its value to: &quot;2048&quot;, if you want the maximum, or &quot;500&quot; if you want the minimum, or somewhere inbetween as you prefer.<br><br>I did something like this on one of my systems a while back and afterwards I never saw that installation of Win9x &quot;forget&quot; any icon it saw.&nbsp;&nbsp;It had other problems from time to time but it didn't forget icons&lt;g&gt;.<br><br>Hope this helps<br>Peter Vince&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="mailtoeterkv@vaxxine.com">peterkv@vaxxine.com</A>

 

[Sensibilium]

Thanks PeterKV, but what would I call the string value so windows knows what it is? <p>ahdkaw<br><a href=mailto:ahdkaw@sensibilium.com>ahdkaw@sensibilium.com</a><br><a href=

http://sensibilium.com/>Sensibilium</a><br>'If

you do visit my sites - be warned! You must be of a discordian nature...'