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| Thread ID: 31613 | 2003-03-27 04:31:00 | Word Icon hijacked by Business Card!! | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 131295 | 2003-03-27 04:31:00 | Hi Team No, I'm not joking. Some time back I picked up a mini-CD business card from Software Images and recently gave it a run on Old Faithful (W98), all very interesting and no problems. No. 1 daughter then came into my office and commented how neat that was, so I gave her the CD to try in her computer (W2K) as an exercise in IT & marketing studies. It wouldn't run on her computer for some reason, but in the process of refusing it hijacked the desktop icon for Word 2000, substituting one of its own. X-( Now this sort of behaviour kinda puts me off SI as a company, in that I don't appreciate smart-arsed tricks that interfere with my computers, but now I have said-daughter on my back asking for me to restore her nice blue Word icon. I tried going to the program menu and creating a new one from the original example, and it was alright while it stayed in the drop down menu, but the instant it hit the desktop it was transformed into the alien version. That suggests that the repository for desktop icons is where the alien is hiding, but I'm tight on time for playing right now so spare me the search please; where do I aim my cruise missile to fix this without causing collateral damage? Ideas and/or coalition activity welcome. Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 131296 | 2003-03-27 04:51:00 | I don't know if this is the way you tried it but I'll go there anyway. Right click icon>properties>change icon and it will tell you where the intruder is buried. Then browse to Office or Word and click on the correct one. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 131297 | 2003-03-27 07:02:00 | Already tried that. "Change Icon" is greyed out. :( Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 131298 | 2003-03-27 07:09:00 | > where do I aim my cruise missile to fix this without > causing collateral damage? > > Ideas and/or coalition activity welcome . > > Cheers > > Billy 8-{) :| > I hope you aimed it straight at the software company . Does Adaware pick anything up, out of interest? |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 131299 | 2003-03-27 07:17:00 | :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} :8} Didn't think to check *shame* Watch this space Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 131300 | 2003-03-27 08:04:00 | Well Team, here's the go: 1) Adaware found nothing . 2) The Icon is ok under Administrator but not in the user profile . 3) On another unaffected W2K pc with what I thought was an identical installation "Change Icon" is greyed out in both the user profile and Administrator????????? 4) Under Administrator on the affected computer the "Change Icon" path shows that the icon is located in winword . exe 5) On rechecking Old Faithfull, I found that although the icon is correct, the "change icon" function is greyed out there too . 6) All other Icons in the Office 2000 package are similarly greyed . Conclusions: There is probably nothing sinister in the inaccessible "Change Icon" function . I smell a Registry change steering the shortcut to another icon location . Back to you :| Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 131301 | 2003-03-27 22:32:00 | > I smell a Registry change steering the shortcut to > another icon location . Spybot will do that . It got rid of an IE hijack I had . I downloaded a copy of IE 5 from a college website, and it wouldn't let me change my home page, plus changed "Microsoft Internet Explorer" in the header to "Provided by xxxxxxxxxxx University" . Instead of wading through the registry I ran Spybot and it fixed it immediately . I'm sure though AA detects registry changes it doesn't fix them unless they are directly related to spyware, whereas Spybot is more general in detecting changes . |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 131302 | 2003-03-28 00:13:00 | Thanks Honeylaser, but unfortunately, no luck :( I rushed upstairs, installed and updated Spybot, ran the default scan, then rebooted but the offending little sod is still there. Back to the drawing board. I'll start a registry search for Word but I suspect that such a common "word" will pop up repeatedly. Does anybody know of a specific section of the registry dedicated to icon links for the desktop? I live in hope *sigh* :8} Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 131303 | 2003-03-28 00:32:00 | Billy T, and I guess you have already deleted the ShelliconCache (located in the Windows directory) and rebooted the W2K pc. I'm just looking up the registry references and (hopefully) will get back on that for you. Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 131304 | 2003-03-28 00:38:00 | Billy T, and I also should have pointed out that the ShelliconCache is a System/Hidden file so: * at a command prompt, change to the %SystemRoot% folder * remove the hidden attribute from the file attrib -h shelliconcache and press ENTER, then delete the file del shelliconcache and press ENTER and reboot the PC Babe |
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