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Help Icons are ugly....

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thewisecrab
thewisecrab Original post #1
Aug 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM
n00bish I know but the icons on my desktop have suddenly changed to the dos type rectangular box This prob is also there in the start menu It looks really ugly How do I fix it?
abhi.eternal
Aug 30, 2008 at 9:25 PM
Rebuilding icon cache might work. Download TweakUI and Repair options select Rebuild Icons > Repair Now. If you are on Vista, you will have to run this s/w in compatibility mode for WinXPSP2.
thewisecrab
Aug 30, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Oh god
how silly of me
The same topic is there in Frequently asked questions by Mr. Vishal Gupta
His tutorial did the trick :)
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