I've just noticed that recently some of my desktop ICONS are "faded" (sorry, no sun in this room). I've never remember seeing this before. I assume it has some significance but I have no idea what that would be.
See attachment for examples. Anyone know what it means (and how to disable that feature):
Hi MisterEdF, welcome to the forums :)
You may have (inadvertently) hidden those folders/files and have explorer set to show hidden/system files/folders. You might want to right click each file just to make sure that they're not 'hidden'. That's normally the case for greyed out folders/icons/files.
Hope it helps :)
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Thanks for the welcome ....
Nope, not hidden. That was one of the first things I checked. About half the file and folder icons are showing this.
Must be something simple ..... just have to figure out what. :)
LOL ... just figured it out. Sorted my "installed programs" by install date and I recently installed PICASSA (Google). Uninstalled it and it went away.
Duhhhhh!
You could try resetting the folder/icon views.
If you open explorer then click Organize->Folder and search options you can then reset both the tabs you see in the pics
General Tab
(click 'Restore defaults')
View Tab
(click 'Reset folders' and 'Restore defaults')
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You must have just missed the message I posted right before yours. :)
Important NB - CYbot B Virus- I should have added that when I got into SAFE MODE, I could run System Restore, by typing SYSTEM RESTORE into SEARCH; which cleared the virus.
I experienced the faded desktop icon problem after cloning my boot drive with Easeus Todo Backup. The problem was solved by employing Orbital Shark's suggestion to switch Folder views back to the defaults. I was then able to go back to my preferred settings with everything displayed properly. Thank you, Orbital Shark.
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must have done...DOH! lol
