Will give this a try Monday...g'Nite all

And THANKS for all the help...MUCH appreciated.

Unc

Hey chaps, let's take this up on Monday evening...gotta hit the hay...worn out...been at this shite all day. See you around 19:00hrs my time which is central time in Canada...UNLESS I get peed off...

Here's the weird part...with Explorer open and I hover the cursor arrow over the vertical slider, some weird lookin images(little black & white squares) appear and disappear quickly as you move the...

yessir...!

had one extra "back slash" but I re-did it properly

C:\Users\Laurie\AppData\\Local\IconCache.db

I get message that windows cannot find that file

Sorry again, I'm old and grey...which address bar are we talkin about here...?

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there is what I created

Ok, I created "New Text Document.txt"

Not sure what you mean by "inside"...?

Glad to hear I'm not the ONLY one goin batty...!!! LOL...!

Unc

Sorry, right click on which folder...?

Nope...!!

no such file exists...! Maybe that's the whole problem...?

Yes the Local folder does open

I found the AppData folder and it shows Local LocalLow and Roaming. Thing is you cannot open properties of any of these files...?!

The search says no items were found to match search...or smething like that...!

Unc

In another word...nothing...and I mean nothing, nadda, zip, zero, niet...! No message, no error, not a sausage...as they say in England...!

Unc

In a word...nothing...! :-(

Unc

Hey simrick, no restore point to go to. Tried the in-place upgrade but Windows says it could not do this...!! The stupid part is that the whole system works fine but as I said, there are NO icons to...

Thanks pepanee for jumpin in here, but I checked my VERY long list of fixes attempted, and that one was already tried and did not work...:-(

back to the drawing board...

Unc

2 days ago, I was trying to load up some vacation pics from a Cd from the DVD drive when phone rang. After returning to the 'puter, the DVD was buzzing around all over and not stopping with the...