Windows default icons

[jhallows]

Several times a day, my desktop icons all switch to the default. Then the system thrashes for about a minute until all the icons have been restored. This usually happens when I open a new folder in Windows Explorer. It is annoying because I cannot do anything else while the icons are being restored.

I'm operating Windows XP Pro on a Sony Viao laptop.

Any suggestions?

[Disk_Contented]

This may be worth a try:
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...IconCache.html