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    Desktop Icons Have Black Box

    Just need a bit small help form you all. I am using windows vista and suddenly all my desktop icons got covered with black box around them apart from recycle bin, a folder and a word doc. I tried changing themes but that doesn’t seems to be removing these box.

    Do you guys have any idea how can get rid of these ?

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    Re: Desktop Icons Have Black Box

    Not sure but clearing out the thumbnail cache can fix this. Did you tried the same? If not follow these steps and do it;
    • Click Start, type cleanmgr and press ENTER
    • Click My files only
    • Select the system drive letter from the drop-down list
    • Uncheck all the entries except Thumbnails
    • Click OK

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    Re: Desktop Icons Have Black Box

    There is an easier way as well (I used it to fix the same problem on my laptop). If you are running the 32bit color, simply go to personalize and change it to 16bit color. Click Apply > OK and restart the computer. You will see there is no black box any more. Now you can go back and change the colors to 32 bit. That’s it. No more black boxes will be there.

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    Awesome, man. That worked perfectly. Thanks for the advice.

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