Black Icons

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 24 Jan 2005, 22:32

Ok, i've got this really annoying problems with my desktop icons, as you can see from the pic below that the background of the icon is black and not see-thru like it use to be.

I don't know how it happened, but i recently installed a new graphics card, NVIDIA 6800GT, installed the latest drivers, then one day i turned my PC on, and the icons were messed up.

I have WinXP, with SP2.

Can someone please help me out. Thanks.

Andre_online · Post by **Andre_online** » 26 Jan 2005, 00:03

Hmm, WinXP shouldn't be like that as far as I know. That usually happens in Windows 98.

ghost_4ce · Post by **ghost_4ce** » 26 Jan 2005, 01:13

Here ya go m8=>
It has to be one of these:-

Right click on dektop, go to properties.
Go to the Appearence tab.
Click on the advanced button.
Search for somthing like icons/desktop/background and change the colours to whatever you want.
<center> ----or---- </center>
Go to System Properites. (shortcut= windows butten+pause/break)
Go to the Advanced Tab.
Click on Performence settings.
Click on "Adjust for best appearance" or find the exact thing your looking for from the list.
click OK

Edit: Something similar happened when I installed new drivers for my poor ATI9200. But I somehow fixed it or maybe it fixed itself. Not sure, try both these options anyways.

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 26 Jan 2005, 02:30

HOORAAY!!! Thanks a lot ghost_4ce, that really helped. I know this isn't a huge problem compared to driver failures, system error, loss of data, computer blowing up, but that black icon thing really took the f*****g weewee!!!

Well thanks again for the help, i guess one of the moderators can lock this thread or delete or whatever....