Icons in the taskbar not loading after starting...

I have to restart three or four times to the icons on the right is displayed in my office.  I installed a new hard drive on my PC and it says I have SP3 but when I look in theAdd Remove list in the Control Panel, XP SP3 shows no list, like other elements of size of files.   I'm not sure it's actually in my PC.   When I installed it on my old hard drive it is solved this problem.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello

Windows XP service pack 3 will not display any size file to add and remove programs.

Method 1:

It could be that the icon of the Cache is corrupt. I suggest you to rebuild the icon cache and check if the problem is resolved.

a. close and save all work. This command will kill explore and reboot once completed.

b. open the Start Menu and type cmd in the search box and press on enter.

(c) in the command prompt, copy and paste each line below command and press ENTER after each command.

Taskkill /IM explorer.exe/f

CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

DEL /a IconCache.db

Shutdown /r

d. the IconCache.db file was now rebuilt.

Method 2:

I suggest to create a new user account and check.

How to create and configure user accounts in Windows XP

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/279783

Thanks and regards.

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