The desktop icons do not work after getting off the Internet

Original title: icons will not work

Sometimes, when I get internet my desktop icons do not work so I have to go to start and restart my computer to make them work.  What can I do to fix this?

This isn't the only way, one of them...
Rebuild your icon cache:
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

Use One method... Download.

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