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When Recycle Bin Icons Attack.

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by thorpe322

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Strangest thing. I have a WIN98 pc that whenever a shortcut is created, it now appears as a recycle bin icon. All icons on the desktop are now recycle bin icons. When i delete the icon and recreate it from its folder in program files, it again appears as a recycle bin icon. This is annoying!! Thanks

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by opatzg9

Go in under properties for the selceted icon and change to what you want. Obviously there is a default somewhere messing you up or the default icon has been overwritten with your recycle bin icon. It wouldn't hurt to do a virus scan! Try the tweakui utility you can getthe links from zdnet.com.
Good luck

by thegodfather

You nead to delete the shellicon from the windows folder. Re-boot the machine and this will re-build all your icons.

This is also very handy for the infamous black Icon scenario.

As previously recomended, I would also run an Anti-Virus scan over the system.

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