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Heya guys I just got a call from a mate his computer is playing up but was working fine last night.
The problem he is having is that when he boots the computer up (He has tried 4 restarts with same result) all the icons on the desktop are displaying a picture that looks like a file that has not been associated with a program, its a white paper with a black square with the little squares inside.
None of the programs will launch from the shortcuts the only ones that will work are the My Computer and Internet Explorer links no other program seems to load.
Sorry I cant give more info but I tried a search on google for possible answers and couldnt find any and I am going round his house later and thought I would try to go round there with some idea if any of you have any.
He does have AVG and Ad-Aware installed on his machine and I will also personally run a scan when I go round but I thought I might be able to get some kind of idea of whats going on because as you all know its a pain to re-format a machine thats got a machine thats slower than a Athlon XP2400+.
He is using Windows XP with SP2
Thanks for reading.
The problem he is having is that when he boots the computer up (He has tried 4 restarts with same result) all the icons on the desktop are displaying a picture that looks like a file that has not been associated with a program, its a white paper with a black square with the little squares inside.
None of the programs will launch from the shortcuts the only ones that will work are the My Computer and Internet Explorer links no other program seems to load.
Sorry I cant give more info but I tried a search on google for possible answers and couldnt find any and I am going round his house later and thought I would try to go round there with some idea if any of you have any.
He does have AVG and Ad-Aware installed on his machine and I will also personally run a scan when I go round but I thought I might be able to get some kind of idea of whats going on because as you all know its a pain to re-format a machine thats got a machine thats slower than a Athlon XP2400+.
He is using Windows XP with SP2
Thanks for reading.