desktop icons altered...

hi all. i have a strange problem. most of my icons have been changed to have this little well what looks to be a red profile of a man on them. has anyone seen or had this happen before and how can i fix it? i thought it was possibly from installing comodo internet security premium but i uninstalled that and theyre still the same. i dont think its a icon corruption because its too uniform and while most have it my play list files, recyle bin, and cacaoweb dont have it. any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.

 

I've had this issue as well. Weird thing is, that icon will sometimes change to something else. But it will be constant to all.

I'm trying to remember how I fixed it.

 

well thats the thing. they were the same icons just with the little red guy added on them. i dont know of anything that only slightly alters a icon while keeping the originalicon except for like the little arrows on shortcuts.

 

nope. and youll need to zoom in closer then as its not a ! but the upper body side profile of a man it looks like just all in red.

 

Greetings, gillotte.

Try uploading a screenshot of your startup programs - maybe we could spot something there.

In fact, why don't you do this:

Download and run Everest, a free system information tool.

When the program opens, click 'Report > Quick Report - All pages > Plain text'.

When the scan completes, click 'Save to file', name the file 'Report', and save to an easily found location, such as your Desktop.

Then attach that file to your next post.

 

ok shall i run hijackthis and post it too?

 

Negative - do not post a HijackThis log.

Everest will show us what we need.

 

well thats a no go. everest has given me 2 bod now trying to use it. it installed fine but when its loading up stuff it crashes my pc. i get a error about kerneld.wnt at address 948e3ad8ba3e at 94833000 datestamp 42e505e2

 

Are all the icons effected actually shortcuts or are some regular files?

 

recreate the shellicon cache.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132668

Delete c:\ShShellIconCache; it will be rebuilt by Windows.

 

Yikes! Never known Everest to do that.