HELP! Weird pc problem...

geoschmo · #1 May 16th, 2003, 01:25 AM

Hope oen of you can explain this to me and show me hwo to fix it. Something happened to my pc and now all my desktop icons have this stupid yahoo smiley icon superimposed over them.

Here's a picture...
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I got to git rid of this, it's driving me crazy. I uninstalled yahoo instant messenger, and everything else yahoo I could find. I tried changing icons, they show changed, but then a second later the yahoo thingy shows back up. When I boot up the computer the icons show normally for a second and then the yahoo icons appear over top of them.

Help please.

Geoschmo

Fyron · #2 May 16th, 2003, 01:27 AM

Get TweakUI from www.microsoft.com and then set the icon that overlays all shortcuts to either default or none.

geoschmo · #3 May 16th, 2003, 01:35 AM

Yay!

I didn't even notice the shorcut arrows were gone. SO the Yahoo thingy overwrote the shortcut arrows somehow. Cool. That fixed it.

Thanks

Fyron · #4 May 16th, 2003, 01:37 AM

Yeah, Yahoo is very very pervasive...

Katchoo · #5 May 16th, 2003, 01:39 AM

Yikes!

First off, look for anything blatently wrong in the Add/Remove Programs list. If you see something that's affiliated with Yahoo!, yank it out. (sounds like you already did this though).

Then run "MSCONFIG" and look under the Startup Tab. Scroll down this list and look for anything with Yahoo! (or anything wierd). Take the checkmarks off, close the program and reboot to see if the problem goes away. If things get worse, run the program again and put the checkmarks back in.

Oh, and don't forget to write a nasty letter to Yahoo!, and probably to a computer magazine or two. PC World has a watchdog which will go after Yahoo if this crap is happening to your system without your knowledge. MaximumPC has something similar too. Spread the word and get these spuds put out of business once and for all.