most of the icons on the desktop have changed their appearance a.

[Plaits]

most of my icons on the desktop have changed their appearance and now look
the same all have W logo and will not allow me to open the program they are
covering I can go in to some programs using home page. when I do get a
program open they all have Norton anti virus logo on them, I have run a virus
check nothing found.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Sorry - not a microsoft office related problem. Try posting in a group for
your operating system.

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After furious head scratching, Plaits asked:

| most of my icons on the desktop have changed their appearance and now
| look the same all have W logo and will not allow me to open the
| program they are covering I can go in to some programs using home
| page. when I do get a program open they all have Norton anti virus
| logo on them, I have run a virus check nothing found.

 

[Jan Groshan]

I had the same (or similar) problem. If you download a free utility called
TWEAKUI, there is an option in that program to repair icons. It worked just
fine for me. There are also a lot of other handy utilities with TweakUI that
you might like as well.

The other alternative I had tried was to go to each icon, right click,
choose Properties, and "change icon". Tedious, but it worked.