OK, this is a head scratcher, and I can’t find any information on it (maybe my Google-Fu just isn’t just to snuff as of late)., but my Desktop icons have suddenly been overlayed with an image of a computer and a padlock. Not replaced - overlayed. The original icons are still there, and I see them when I refresh the desktop or reboot the machine, but once the screen finally loads, that damn icon overlay comes and covers everything up.

My icons have been stuck like this for at least the past 12 hours, possibly longer. Help?

Uh … never mind? As soon as I finished typing that sentence, I went back to my desktop and, lo and behold, the icons were back to normal.

OK that does piss me off, because I was going to rant about some random act of Vista violence, but … what the hell, man? Why would my icons be stuck like that all through the night, only to magically fix themselves 12 hours later?

If I was a complacent consumer, which I’m not, i would be thrilled that the problem fixed itself and I don’t have to worry about fixing anything. As I said, I’m not a complacent consumer, and now I’m actually pretty pissed off: I don’t know why the icons did this in the first place, and I sure as hell don’t know why they magically fixed themselves.

Windows Vista: It’s Comcastic!

Tags: windows vista, comcastic, magic desktop icons