Why some of my desktop icons and taskbar are blurred

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• The desktop icons and taskbar are at least three minutes to load when I start the computer.

  Original title: problem with the desktop icons

  All of a sudden when I start my computer, the icons on the desktop and icons at the bottom of the clock of the take at least three minutes to load, and before that time, they used to load in a few seconds.  Also, I have no problem with the computer start.  Any help to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.

  According to the specifications of your system, hard drives on your system are disks IDE (not the SATA drives).

  Sometimes the Interface IDE mode can change from DMA mode to PIO mode and when that happens, things sudden. run very slowly, but it is easy to check and adjust if you need to.

  Here's how:

  If you are using IDE drives, use Device Manager to check the channel Transfer Mode IDE is set to something like DMA if available (depends on your hardware) and the slow PIO mode.
    
  Don't forget: PIO is the slowest, DMA is faster.

  It is easy to check and usually easy to fix and the mode would not have changed in itself, so if she changed to PIO, change it to DMA, and then understand why it changed and fix it.

  To launch the Device Manager console, click Start, run and enter in the box:

  %SystemRoot%\System32\devmgmt.msc

  Click OK.

  Expand the section controller IDE / ATA to see your IDE channels. Each right click and choose Properties for each channel that has a tab advanced settings, determine the Transfer Mode. There are usually 4 channels to check in a desktop computer, maybe less for laptops.

  Faster selection will always be a kind of selection DMA (usually: DMA DMA5, UDMA, etc.).  If it is PIO, change it to DMA.
    
  If you are unsure of what you see after return of help and advice.
    
  If you make settings, restart and check the settings again to make sure that any change stick.
    
  What may have caused the change?
    
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/817472

• Windows 7 64 bit, start slowing down, the desktop icons and taskbar of loading very slowly since last week!

  so first, I'll start with my system features:

  Reference Dell Xps15z
  Intel Core i7 - 2640M to 2.8 ghz
  NVIDIA GT525M 2 GB
  8 GB RAM
  Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 64-bit
  Samsung PM830 SSD 2.5 "7 GB 218, 42 GB of free
  My laptop is now just a year and plays well outside some blue screen errors that have been fixed. The question now is time to start being significantly slower, especially the loading of the office. It takes 15 seconds to the password screen, to 45 seconds to reach the office and another 45 seconds to the taskbar, icons and things on the desktop to load. What is unusual is that during this black screen, my mouse is displayed, as well as for Advanced System Care 6 performance monitor (I doubt that this is the problem as I had installed for some time). I did the troubleshooting on mine and removed about half of my program without success. I also checked the health and performance of my SSD with SSD and SSD life and both seem to be very positive. I did not any changes to the Bios because I don't want to reinstall my OS and I'm not really sure on workarounds.
  I tried also to the difficulty of the task of explorer.exe, by checking the value of shell in the registry and it is correct, that it just load slowly at the start and each time I kill and then open it again in the Task Manager. Therefore, I think that my main problem is with explorer.exe loading slowly for some reason, I also removed some desktop icons and taskbar, although I doubt that it makes much difference.
  I've also done many scans with malware bytes pro and hitman pro, there is no virus on my computer.
  I appreciate any help, as it is very inconvenient for my more than 90 seconds start time, when he was about 20 when the laptop was new.
  Thank you very much for your help!
  P.S. I have about 60 GB of games installed on my pc via steam, if it makes a difference to delete some

  When my Windows 7 is slow to start, I do the following:

  Start, then in the search box, type of race. In run, type "msconfig"(sans guillemets), and then click OK. ""
  In the general tab, make sure that selective startup is selected.
  Under Selective startup, clear the check box load startup items.
  Then go to the Startup tab and disable everything except software antivirus and important such as the microsoft. In addition, DO NOT disable any program that you do not recognize.
  This will disable any unnecessary background programs and prevent to launch at startup.
  NOTE: you can still start programs even if they do not start at startup. For example, your favorite game is one of them, and you the disabled. Now, the game does not start at startup, but if you click on the game icon later, it will always start, except maybe a bit slower when it starts. Basically, you are delaying the start of programmes which does not need to start at startup, you move a part of the start-up BACK period. The only programs that you do not disable is programs that actually need to start (like if it starts your computer will blow or something similar).

• Lack of the desktop icons and taskbar with Windows Xp on my Toshiba laptop, try to install windows XP Sp2 without disc

  I have a Toshiba laptop with windows XP SP2 installed. Now, all of my desktop icons and the taskbar may not be seen (hidden)

  Attempt to clean for result of virus... > no virus
  Tried creating new user... > the same

  The Explorer.exe file does not load at startup.

  Running in SafeMode... > no change

  Trying to repair XP and he says... > blue screen

  Tried to Format and reinstall Windows XP sp2... > NOT found HDD

  Tried Msconfig and disable the process running everything except Microsoft... > no results

  I tried to do all the things described in the Article ID: 318027
  What other thigs should I try? Help, please

  Check this box:

  http://www.kellys-Korner-XP.com/xp_tweaks.htm

  Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
  http://www.kellys-Korner-XP.com/taskbarplus! .htm

  Line #195 "restore desktop icons and taskbar."
  http://www.kellys-Korner-XP.com/xp_tweaks.htm

• the desktop icons and labels are not transparent

  the desktop icons and labels are not transparent

  Hello

  · Were there any changes made on the computer before the show?

  You can check out the post below which deals on the same concern: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-files/desktop-icon-issue/5c5826c3-8a73-4265-bbf5-5a840fccf9af

• The desktop icons and taskbar disappear when windows has finished starting - any of the usual things help

  I have a Windows XP Home Edition with a breath main card computer.  Replaced the Board, PS and other items.  Then re-activated windows and everything was fine.  Until the last moment, I rebooted after activating it.  I have the problem that I have seen posted in a bit.  When Windows has finished initializing all the desktop icons and task bar etc. disappear.  Nothing works.

  I can bring up the Task Manager and manually run programs, etc.

  Believe me when I say I spent reviewing EACH reference to this problem... Yes 5 days and counting... Tried them all.

  I also tried a repair of windows in place which ends without any problem (twice)... but still no icons or taskbar.  I also ran several controls of virus, including one for the virus, which is usually the cause of this problem.  (fsnimda3.exe), I tried all the ideas in another thread (page 9) and many other institutions.  Before I did the reconstruction of the material I've cloned the original hard drive and have used the disc cloned juggling his original for the back.  Even tried to reinstall the old disk and do a comparison of sector by sector, in the case where my cloning process missed something.  In the 30 years I've been in the computer business I have never had a re - format a hard drive to solve a problem.  BUT I think it will break my record.

  I'm doing this as a favor for a friend.  But at this point our friendship is really put to the test

  Hello

  This thread has been created in wrong forum; Microsoft moderation team has moved this thread to the system repair and recovery forum.

• Desktop icons and program are corrupt and all link to Skype.

  Original title: Desktop icons

  My desktop icons and program have been corrupted and all link to Skype. Someone at - it solutions?

  Here is another possible solution:

  Restore the .exe file association:
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/articles/165/1/restore-the-exe-file-association-in-Windows-Vista-after-incorrectly-associating-it-with-another-application.html

  Excerpt:
   
  Download exefix_cu.reg attached at the end of this article and save it on the desktop. Right click on the REG file and chooseMerge.

  Scroll down to the spare section and click on exefix_cu.reg and follow the above instructions. For the benefits of others looking for answers, please mark as answer suggestion if it solves your problem.

• Win 8 (Pro) - Questions on program files, the desktop icon and taskbar

  Hello

  I just upgraded successfully Win 7 (home) to Win 8 (Pro).

  I have a few questions in mind:

  Q1: A program icon can be PIN to the taskbar and desktop at the same time?

  Q2: Under Win 7, user can easily see all installed programs by clicking on all programs in the Start Menu and select no matter what and copy and paste it on the desktop or PIN to the taskbar task, but under Win 8, I could not find this feature. CAB user to access the program to install all at the same time? Or the user needs to type the name of the program to the search box one by one? How to pin it in the Start Menu Win 8 on the desktop instead?

  Appreciate someone could help me in this area.

  Thank you

  First question: Yes, of course.  You can place an icon where you want. Desktop, taskbar, start screen, at the same time.

  Second Question:

  The start of Windows 8 has a screen view "all programs" similar to the former in Windows 7 (except the new is full screen).  To get her on Windows 8, right click on an empty spot.  If you have Windows 8.1 update, which makes it easier to find by putting an arrow at the bottom of the main screen.

  To take an icon from the start menu or the list of applications and put them on your desktop, right click, choose "Open file location" and then copy / paste the icon on the desktop.

• Why some of my paintings checkerboard and others are white.  I want that all my paintings to white

  In Photoshop, I have a file with two layers, a photo, the other text.  The photo is smaller than the canvas, and canvas that is visible on the photo is a checkerboard that I find very entertaining.  This same checkerboard is present when I switch to the text layer.  Question: How can I change this to a pure white canvas damier canvas?

  Thank you very much.

  Go in Edition > Preferences > transparency and Gamut and transparency settings section, set the size of the grid to 'None '.

• How can I restore my desktop icons and the taskbar icons

  I tried to open a file with a program's .lnk and her was not recognized in the program, and now my desktop icons and my icons to the taskbar was converted into icons for the program. How to get this back? I need to know how to do this in Windows 7.

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  There are some patches for the issue that you siding, but most of them requires registry changes that I do not say that they can cause several other problems. I recommend that you perform a system restore.

  There are two ways to perform the system restore:

  Menu start open, click Run and type cmd to open the command prompt.

  Type CD... to book only c:\.

  Type windows CD then CD System32, and then restore.

  After once, you'll find yourself in c:\ windows\system32\restore >

  Type restrui.exe press ENTER.

  Once the system restore the open window then click on next to select any available restore point.

  This process takes a few minutes to do the restore and please make sure that once this process has begun there wont be reversible and or you will lose all personal data.

  Another way to perform the system restore is to open the safe mode by clicking on F8 at startup and check the option of safe mode, then still a dialog box opens to ask the system restore and then follow the steps above.

  Concerning

  David

• Why is there a green checkmark bit attached to some of my desktop icons in win 8

  Recently I did a system restore today on my laptop as a quick way to get rid of all the addons for the toolbar and * who's lookout in front of me for the past month. Now, I have this little green circle with a white check mark in the middle of this one that focused on a bunch of my desktop icons, and troubleshooting I've done so far says that these programs/applications do not work properly, why?

  Recently I did a system restore today on my laptop as a quick way to get rid of all the addons for the toolbar and * who's lookout in front of me for the past month. Now, I have this little green circle with a white check mark in the middle of this one that focused on a bunch of my desktop icons, and troubleshooting I've done so far says that these programs/applications do not work properly, why?

  Hello

  The reason the most common check marks (collection icons) you describe, is that they are used to identify files that have been backed up on a line such as the following backup service.

  Mozy backup-symbol of superposition of information?
  http://support.Mozy.com/support/mozyKnowledgeBase?docid=78225

  Carbonite: Icons collection
  http://Carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/A_ID/1344

  Green Tick or blue overlay arrows icon displayed for files in Windows Explorer: Norton 360 backup

  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/green-tick-or-blue-arrows-icon-overlay-displayed-for-files-in-Windows-Explorer/

  These marks could also be associated with the file Microsoft Skydrive online service. When a file is placed on your Skydrive space, the check mark is placed on the file.

  SkyDrive desktop application for Windows: frequently asked questions:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/SkyDrive/Windows-app-FAQ

  Concerning

• Some of the desktop icons have expanded themselves how to reverse this trend?

  Some of the desktop icons have expanded themselves how to reverse this trend?

  The first thing to try is to right click on your desktop > view > click medium icons and see what happens. You can also try small

• Some of my desktop icons with white boxes dotted around them, how are they removed?

  Some of my desktop icons with white boxes dotted around them, how are they removed?

  Hello

  1. Since when are you facing this problem?

  2. have you made changes on the computer recently?

  I would suggest trying the following methods and check if it helps.

  Method 1:

  Run Microsoft Safety Scanner and check if it helps.

  Microsoft safety scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Method 2:

  Try these steps and see if it helps.

  a. click Start.

  b. right click on computer , then click Properties.

  c. click Advanced system of parameters.

  d. click on the Advanced tab.

  e. click settings under performance.

  f. uncheck the option: shadows fall usage labels icon on the desktop.

  g. click apply and Ok.

  I also suggest that you send the screenshot of the icons, so that we can help you.

  How can I post a screen shot on this forum?

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/Windows_7-security/how-do-i-post-a-screen-shot-on-this-forum/c86de820-C620-401c-A804-9f6337cd3053

  Hope the information is useful.

• My desktop icons and toolbar and start programs disappeered after getting a virus.

  My desktop icons and toolbar and start programs disappeered after getting a virus.

  I deleted the virus.

  No idea how to get back them?

  Hi Matt,
  Some infections of virus/malware will hide all files and shortcuts on your computer. To make your files visible again, download display on your desktop.
   
  Once downloaded, double-click display and let it run. It removes the attribute hidden on all files and attempt to restore items in quick launch and Start Menu to their location.
  If you think that your computer is still infected, try following the steps in this virus/malware removal guide: http://www.selectrealsecurity.com/malware-removal-guide

  It contains instructions which will remove most malware infections. If you have any questions, just ask me. I hope this helps you.

  Brian

• some of my desktop icons are white, how can I solve them?

  the desktop icons are white and must be corrected. How can I solve this problem?

  Hi, Frédéric L.Jackson,.

  1. Did you the latest changes on the computer?
  2. Are you referring to completely white desktop icons or icons changed?
  3. You have security software installed on the computer?
  4. What happens when you try to access white desktop icons?
  5. Are the program of white desktop icons or any file?

  Method 1

  See the link below and run the Fixit tool available, check if it helps.

  Diagnose and repair Windows files and folders problems automatically

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/windows_file_and_folder_diag/

  Method 2

  Check if the problem persists in the safe mode and post back with the results.

  A description of the options to start in Windows XP Mode

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315222

   

  Method 3

  If the problem does not persist in safe mode, then it is possible that some third-party programs installed on the computer is causing the problem.

  I suggest that you configure the computer in a clean boot state and check if it helps.

  To help resolve the error and other messages, you can start Windows XP by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This type of boot is known as a "clean boot". A clean boot helps eliminate software conflicts.

  See section to learn more about how to clean boot.

  How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" State

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310353

  Reset the computer to start as usual

  When you are finished troubleshooting, follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

  (a) click Start, type msconfig in the search box and press ENTER.

  (b) If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password or click on continue.

  (c) under the general tab, click the Normal startup option, and then click OK.

  (d) when you are prompted to restart the computer, click on restart.