Go to: http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp  to download Tweakui 1.33 for Win 98 SE.  After it's installed go to the repair tab (I think, but check all the tabs for a drop down box in which the first item shown is "rebuild icons". Click on it and that should fix the problem. Tweakui installation puts an icon on the control panel which you open by doubleclicking it.



Leigh Jennings <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>HI Listers
>
>I am looking after a small network which has a problem on one of its pc's.
>A win98 SE  pc is suddenly  showing black boxes in place of icons on the
>desk top and in explorer. I Instructed the user to run the system file
>checker but it found no faults.
>
>It seems to me that this windows installation has a corrupted file that
>holds the icon information, but how to fix it if "SFC" cant find it?
>
>I would expect a re-installation of win98 SE would fix it but that could
>render their Zip-drive Backup software useless and to date they haven't
>found their backup copy of the software.
>
>Any suggestions on how to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated
>
>The network is  not connected to the internet at all.
>


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