System Restore won’t work, Oldest restore point is few days ago & have been dealing w/ this since around 8/15/11. Thanks for the response though. (Change User. (Back to ORIGINAL Admin. Acct.) > ICONS ARE ALTERED HERE!!! ~ Go back to NEW user acct., DL Adobe Flash (10.3), works fine. // Check IE version (9.3)., CLOSE, switch to ‘Broken’ user acct. **[SIDENOTE, is it normal for something called Adobe AIR to show up w/ Reader Download ???] ~ Check IE version (9.3), ** I SWEAR it showed ver. 6 yesterday**. Try DLing anyways (MS site) in both 64, then 32bit. Won’t LOAD, Msg says “Newer version already on computer”. ~ Switch back to NEW Admin. Acct., Check Ver. (9.0.8112.16421, Update Ver.9.0.2 (KB2559049)). >Switch user, Check older Admin. Acct. Shows SAME. Uninstall stuff, *3 Screensavers. > Icons Still Altered after shutdown & reboot. Uninstall EVERYTHING installed since comp. was new, *2 more screensavers & Bearshare. ~ Goto Uninstall, select Adobe Reader X, select ‘Change’. RESTART comp. No result (Icons still Altered). > UNINSTALL. Icons revert back to normal (default appearance and file associations.) This is crazy and driving me there. I can’t understand how or why everything is fine in NEW user acct. but messed up in old. Since everything (programs, etc…) apppear to be identical. I would just delete old acct. & use new one if I knew how to transfer files (pics, music, pdf’s, & especially IE Favorites) to new one. Although I dion’t believe this would FIX the real problem which is what I desire to do. RE..I AM quite novice w/ computers, though this problem is Forcing me to learn a bunch. Thanks for any additional ideas. K
