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Solve : IE icon not working update?

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OK everyone. The mystery continues....

I wrote a day or two ago that my IE icon wouldn't work. WELL, I have done a LOT of virus scanning, etc. And TODAY I was messing around and found out that I can get onto the internet with IE if I go to on the desktop:

My Network Places and right CLICK
then go to explore
then go to the internet explorer at the bottom of the list and double click

This takes me to my home page with no problem. So why don't the IE icons on my desktop work? Neither the one on the desktop nor the one on the toolbar works. And I tried to figure out if I could make the internet explorer subfolder some kind of shortcut icon, but I can't.

Anyone have anything to say about this one? I am at a loss for sure!

Thanks!

DJ
Well.... Are you using Windows XP? I KNOW that if you customize the desktop, you can set an Internet Explorer icon.... It will automitically direct you to the right file... Did you make the shortcut(s) yourself?

[glb]Flame[/glb]Nope - using Windows 2000 ProfessionalSo you did NOT make the shortcuts yourslef, right?

[glb]Flame[/glb]No, I didn't make them myself. And I didn't change anything since they were working a week ago. So I am not sure what happened unless I accidentally did something that I wasn't aware of.

I am really baffled on this one.

DJDJ......Can you do this ......click start ....now when that window pops up ....go up to the internet explorer icon and double click on it ....will the page open ?

let us know

dl65   

When I do that, there is no internet explorer icon. All I see is:

Juno
New Office Document
Open Office Document
Set Program Access Defaults
Windows Update
Winzip
SBC Yahoo! DSL
SBC Yahoo! Messenger
Etc. - the rest are the regular choices.... but no IE  
 

Also, another thing I noticed (if this helps solve the problem any?).........

Now, if I have two IE explorer windows open, I can not go to the bottom pf the SCREEN and swith back and forth using the items on the tool bar. I have to minimize everything and then click on the item I want on the screen. Whereas before, when everything was working correctly, I could swith back and forth like you are suppoed to be able to do. Do you still think it is some SORT or virus/trojan/hijacker/etc.?

DJ


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