There is an icon cache for the desktop - does anyone remember how to delete
it?

"John-pleasehelp" <Johnpleasehelp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Dear Friends,
>
> I posted this question a week ago, and no replies from you. Could someone
> with knowledge of the XP icon display mechanism try to help me? It is
> very
> strange that only the task bar icons and the folder icons in regedit have
> been corrupted (not the icons on the main desktop, nor the folder icons in
> Windows Explorer). Sorry to remind, but this problem seems interesting and
> challenging as well as being a bit annoying for me. Thanks,
> John-pleasehelp
>
> "John-pleasehelp" wrote:
>
>> XP Home Edition on Acer notebook. I fiddled arount with the screen
>> resolution
>> and the video card settings in order to get my computer to show on TV as
>> secondary monitor (not so easy or logical, but it works). I then put
>> everything back the way it was (only one monitor, 1024X768, 32 bit
>> color),
>> and icons are fine on the desktop BUT the icons are fuzzy (lower
>> resolution?)
>> on the taskbar and also in regedit. Switching screen setting and coming
>> back
>> to normal does not change the situtation. Could you please advise on how
>> I
>> can get the high resolution icons back? Thanks so much.