Desktop - strange behaviour?

Hi .. When I do something simple, like empty my Recycle Bin, or maybe close
a window and go back to desktop, many of the Desktop Icons seem to do a
refresh, for a few seconds they display what I would call a "default Icon"
until the normally assigned icons reappears. It wouldn't be so bad but
sometimes it takes a while for this to finish (seconds maybe but I cant move
my mouse until it finishes). Once the correct icons have been "repainted"
all then is OK once more. Is this normal? Is there anyway to correct
this..if it is incorrect behaviour.

I'm running XPPro SP3, but behaviour occurred on SP2 also..... I don't use
Active Desktop or whatever its called, I don't have a background image, only
a plain colour from the palette. I run 32bit colour.

tia

Ginga

Malke
Fri Jul 04 07:00:59 PDT 2008

Gingangooli wrote:

> Hi .. When I do something simple, like empty my Recycle Bin, or maybe
> close a window and go back to desktop, many of the Desktop Icons seem to
> do a
> refresh, for a few seconds they display what I would call a "default
> Icon"
> until the normally assigned icons reappears. It wouldn't be so bad but
> sometimes it takes a while for this to finish (seconds maybe but I cant
> move my mouse until it finishes). Once the correct icons have been
> "repainted"
> all then is OK once more. Is this normal? Is there anyway to correct
> this..if it is incorrect behaviour.
>
> I'm running XPPro SP3, but behaviour occurred on SP2 also..... I don't use
> Active Desktop or whatever its called, I don't have a background image,
> only a plain colour from the palette. I run 32bit colour.

Try this from MVP Kelly Theriot:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm - Prevent automatic icon and
folder refresh, Line 157

Malke
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