anonymous
Wed Apr 14 18:29:57 CDT 2004
Thanks, DanN - worked like a charm.
>-----Original Message-----
>On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:35:04 -0700, "David"
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote...
>| It's bizarre - when I first go into File
Manager/Windows
>| Explorer the icons are normal. Within a few clicks I
have
>| Photoshop Icons on Word documents, QuickBooks
>| icons on PowerPoint, etc.
>
>Common problem. Increase the size of your icon cache.
Either...
>1) use a utility such as Activicons to increase the icon
cache size to
>at least 2048 -
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_ai.html (the
option is on
>its "Desktop Controls" screen) - or
>
>2) run Regedit. Go down the tree to this key:
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersi
on\explorer
>Here, you will then need to right-click and create a
new "string
>value." Give it the name "Max Cached Icons" and then
right-click to
>edit the properties and make the "value data" either 2048
or 4096.
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>(don't live at a com or net - address listed is altered)
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