Author: William Penn
Date: 07:49:30 10/11/02
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On October 10, 2002 at 11:34:17, William Penn wrote: >On October 10, 2002 at 10:57:31, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On October 10, 2002 at 10:50:03, William Penn wrote: >> >>>On October 10, 2002 at 10:43:46, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >>> >>>>Have you already tried to delete the file "ShellconCache" in c:\windows? >>>>Kurt >>> >>>No. I haven't run across that recommendation before, or I forgot about it. I'd >>>need a reference to some tech info such as... Instructions how to do it. What >>>happens thereafter? What could be harmed thereby? >>>WP >> >>The hidden file "ShellconCache" is a cache to enable Windows to improve speed by >>building up the icons. But sometimes there are errors in it. You can delete the >>file and nothing can be harmed thereby. >>Kurt > >Thanks. I'll try it. I searched at google.com and read about deleting >ShellIconCache. It seems OK to delete from Safe mode. I'll report back if the >black icons re-occur. If they don't show up again within a week, that would be >fairly indicative... >WP I've done that now. I also decided to set the minimum swap file size (Virtual Memory) to 512MB which seems to improve system resources considerably (by 10-20%) as well as greatly reduces hard drive activity. Seems ok with my 255MB RAM and 80G hard drive, so far... WP
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