Just a matter of curiosity, since this change has had no effect on the operation of the PC
In my taskbar I had an icon for Radiomaximus. It was basically a white circle, and I've had it there for years. Yesterday it changed to a
white rectange the size of a piece of 8.5x11 paper with the uppper right corner turned down and a litte circle in the bottom right with a right-pointing black triangle in the middle of that.
Left-click works and the right-click options are the same.
There were short power failures last night, but this is a laptop with a
new fully charged battery.
I can't directly chang it back because properties is not a right-click
option on the taskbar. Checking on the desktop, Radiomaximus has no
such icon. In fact it has oly one icon, the white circle that was in the taskbar until yesterday.
So where did this interloping icon come from? Is this just the start of
a bigger problem? Is this the first attack in a general war by
rectangular icons against roound icons? Is the icon described used by a known enemy force? Is there a Fifth Column in my PC planning to
overthrow all the current icons and replace them with alien ones?
Or is the old icon kidnapped and being held for ransom?? Will a demand message come soon?
Do I need to protect all my other icons? How?
If not war, how do you think this happened?
On Fri, 11/22/2024 11:50 AM, micky wrote:
Just a matter of curiosity, since this change has had no effect on the
operation of the PC
In my taskbar I had an icon for Radiomaximus. It was basically a white
circle, and I've had it there for years. Yesterday it changed to a
white rectange the size of a piece of 8.5x11 paper with the uppper right
corner turned down and a litte circle in the bottom right with a
right-pointing black triangle in the middle of that.
Left-click works and the right-click options are the same.
There were short power failures last night, but this is a laptop with a
new fully charged battery.
I can't directly chang it back because properties is not a right-click
option on the taskbar. Checking on the desktop, Radiomaximus has no
such icon. In fact it has oly one icon, the white circle that was in the
taskbar until yesterday.
So where did this interloping icon come from? Is this just the start of
a bigger problem? Is this the first attack in a general war by
rectangular icons against roound icons? Is the icon described used by a
known enemy force? Is there a Fifth Column in my PC planning to
overthrow all the current icons and replace them with alien ones?
Or is the old icon kidnapped and being held for ransom?? Will a demand
message come soon?
Do I need to protect all my other icons? How?
If not war, how do you think this happened?
Perhaps this is an "icon cache" problem ?
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5645-rebuild-icon-cache-windows-10-a.html
Paul
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:41:19 -0500, Paul ><nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, 11/22/2024 11:50 AM, micky wrote:
Just a matter of curiosity, since this change has had no effect on the
operation of the PC
In my taskbar I had an icon for Radiomaximus. It was basically a white
circle, and I've had it there for years. Yesterday it changed to a
white rectange the size of a piece of 8.5x11 paper with the uppper right >>> corner turned down and a litte circle in the bottom right with a
right-pointing black triangle in the middle of that.
Left-click works and the right-click options are the same.
There were short power failures last night, but this is a laptop with a
new fully charged battery.
I can't directly change it back because properties is not a right-click
option on the taskbar. Checking on the desktop, Radiomaximus has no
such icon. In fact it has oly one icon, the white circle that was in the >>> taskbar until yesterday.
So where did this interloping icon come from? Is this just the start of >>> a bigger problem? Is this the first attack in a general war by
rectangular icons against roound icons? Is the icon described used by a >>> known enemy force? Is there a Fifth Column in my PC planning to
overthrow all the current icons and replace them with alien ones?
Or is the old icon kidnapped and being held for ransom?? Will a demand
message come soon?
Do I need to protect all my other icons? How?
If not war, how do you think this happened?
Perhaps this is an "icon cache" problem ?
Paulhttps://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5645-rebuild-icon-cache-windows-10-a.html >>
Maybe. Except in the question that follows, no reference is made to the >deaktop or the taskbar. I don't know if the cache includes the taskbar
too, but it would make sense if it does.
I will wit to see what happens when I restart windows. I didn't wait to
post because I thought it was a curiosity worth telling about,
regardless of whether it was temporary or not, and I wanted readers to
warn their militias to be alert for attacks on icons and maybe even >horizontal and vertical lines.
The icon on the desktop is still the original, as always.
micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
[...]
The icon on the desktop is still the original, as always.
So check for both the Desktop icon and the Taskbar icon if the icon
*file* (and its path) is the exact same one.
I.e. when you do 'Change icon', there is not only a list of icons
(which can be just one icon), but above that/those icon(s), it says
"Looks for icons in this file;" and below that is the name and the path
of the icon file (*.ico), which contains the displayed icon(s).
Is the path-name and the file-name exactly the same for the Desktop
icon and the Taskbar icon? If not, you probably have the solution to
your problem.
And there's of course the icon-*cache* problem. From your posts, it's
unclear if you have addressed/resolved that issue or not.
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