Hi Loy.  Though I can't confirm if this is really the cause of the problem,
but let me share some of my experience.  I had that scenario also when my
hard drive had problems, causing the operating system to "crawl" and showing
the icons in groups of two(2).  I did a system scan and found out that I had
a worm running on my system.  Again, I can't assume this because you stated
that your problem happens when using Windows Explorer.  Hope my experience
could give you some insights.  Thanks

Frederick


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Loy Pressley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Many times when I use Windows Explorer to open an application, the program
> icons on my desktop will  disappear for short time and then be regenerated
> by  Windows (I guess?) one  at  time.  Any idea what  causes that to happen
> and  is it possible for me to stop that from happening.
>
> I'm running WinXP SP3 with a gig of RAM and at least a hundred gigs of hard
> disk space.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Loy
>
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