THE TALE OF THE LOST ICONS

~ ~ A Mysterious Tale of the Unexpected ..

Published on August 27, 2008 By mike b1954 In Personal Computing

Just a quickie ... hopefully ... for starters .. FF... XP SP3 Object Desktop all up to date

Being a user of Desktop Sidebar I have all my quick launch icons in a panel on DS and usually they are a mirror of what normally are my desktop icons ~ all working perfectly ... no problems at all ..

In the last few days , though I have had to a lot of admin / office work so I usually , for ease , right click , arrange icons by ... then select SHOW DESKTOP ICONS .. .Which usually come in right away and I can click and run other stuff from those as well as DS ....

Until Now ..

When I right click and arrange icons by , the second drop down window ..Name, size, type Show in groups , auto arrange, show in grid etc , is greyed out so clicking there does nothing .. so I cannot get my normal icons onto the desktop ....

For a quick fix , to see if it worked , I opened up Icon X and THERE were all the normal icons ... Just as if I had done it normally ... except that , when I unload IconX normally from the task bar the icons WOULD re-appear normally without the Icon x effects ..

But they don't .... I just get a blank desktop with all my Quick launch icons in DS working normally .. but NO onscreen icons !!!

Weird ..... If anybody has any suggestions please feel free to add them here, as I am totally flummoxed to the nth with this one ..

FYI : Most recent install was the Impulse Update , and the FENCES beta .. which I uninstalled to see if that was causing the problem ...

And finally -

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.2 (build 61 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6200

Wblind.dll     2008/07/22 10:10:20
Wbsrv.dll     2008/07/22 10:11:10
Wbconfig.exe     2008/07/22 10:10:32
Wbload.exe     2008/02/14 12:05:14
Wbhelp.dll     2007/08/27 11:54:07
Wbui.dll     2007/12/01 17:43:05
Tray.dll          2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe     2008/06/13 11:24:09

Comments (Page 3)

Cavan1

on Aug 31, 2008

Mike, WB , you may want to uninstall and reinstall it, here are my dates for the same build.

Wblind.dll 2008/07/22 10:10:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/07/22 10:11:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/07/22 10:10:32
Wbload.exe 2008/04/28 11:35:14
Wbhelp.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:07
Wbui.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:05
Tray.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:21
Screen.exe 2008/07/22 10:10:09

BigDogBigFeet

on Aug 31, 2008

I have XP SP3 and I'm showing the same as Cavan1.

ShelbyGT_The_Car

on Sep 01, 2008

That is good to hear Mike - lets try now and get the system back the way you want it. With your customizations and all. As for that run subkey and what it does is unknown yet. It may have a hkey pointing to it for some function. But leave it till we see a problem. Should not matter too much with a 0 value for that dword.
If you need any other help or experience any other problems - do let me know and we will try to get you fixed up.

mike b1954

on Sep 02, 2008

Shelby.. I can't thank you enough for helping me there, buddy ...

Come to think about it .. I did install FF3.1 a couple of days before the troubles happened

... I still would not have known I had a problem until I needed to do some office work ... !

Thanks once again ...

AbbeyLehman

on Nov 04, 2008

[quote who="Shelbygt_the_Car~!" reply="2" id="1855841"]OK Mike - I put what you have for the NoActiveDesktop and it does change an explorer function.
Plus I'm not sure why it is disabled being it is set for a 1 rather than a 0 the which would enable the explorer function. That or why it is there at all. Being that it does not have to be there.So lets delete some what is called dwords here and see. As seen here in this screenshot. Click for larger image

Then I need to look at this key here. I'm wondering why this is there and a couple of others in this section. But mostly this key

Also go to desktop properties and lets look at what might be setup in that active desktop.
right click desktop go to properties, then desktop and customize desktop, then web tab ;
could you do a screenshot of it if there is anything there. If it is all blank and nothing checked then it is ok.The web tab will not be there if you have yet to remove the regs [dwords] in the first screenshot.

GT [/quote]

I really need to see this post, as I am having smiliar troubles, but I cannot see the pictures for some reason? I could see them fine in the first post that had pics....

Thanks,

Abbey

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