Disappearing icons

[Gene E. Bloch]

Thanks, this looks pretty useful. I have increased the icon cache and
after rebooting rebuilt the icon cache. Perhaps it will help.

Fokke

Let's hope!

 

[Ed Cryer]

I didn't catch it either, but when you clarified it for Fokke Naute, you
also clarified it for me. Let's assume that it helped others too...

Since my methods of communication also fail on occasion, I can't get too
concerned about this little confusion

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that democracy and
multi-culturalism is far superior to totalitarianism and dictatorship".
Discuss in the two hours allotted for this exam: tackling such questions
as; was the war on Iraq justified; was it right to back armed militias
against Gaddafi; was the Arab spring anything more than just a spring
hot-air bubble? And particularly paying attention to the current states
of affair in Egypt, Libya and Iraq - just how closer to democracy are they?

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that democracy and
multi-culturalism is far superior to totalitarianism and dictatorship".
Discuss in the two hours allotted for this exam: tackling such questions
as; was the war on Iraq justified; was it right to back armed militias
against Gaddafi; was the Arab spring anything more than just a spring
hot-air bubble? And particularly paying attention to the current states
of affair in Egypt, Libya and Iraq - just how closer to democracy are they?

Ed

Also,

"Compare and contrast the ideal of free speech versus the reality of
Usenet".

Are we having fun yet? I am...

 

[Fokke Nauta]

Glad to hear it, man. What I was on about was a kind of ego-trip into
the notion of "moral and ethical".
I've thought of a simple contemporary example to illustrate the problem
far more succinctly.

Here in the UK we have a current big thing about racist behaviour in
soccer. We have lots of black players, and some supporters taunt them
with monkey grunts. A lot of it occurs abroad; most recently in Serbia.
And UEFA and the Serbian FA don't seem to latch onto it the same way
that we do; they don't perceive it with our sensibilities.
Well now, here's the problem stated objectively: is it right or wrong to
make monkey grunts at black players? Or, similarly, are we right; or are
UEFA right?

I don't see how you can apportion any truth-value to the above question.
Some say it's ok, some say it isn't. It's all a question of taste and
value; political-social question.

And that was my launch-pad for a whimsical trip through my own personal
moral maze. I'm sure some here would have latched on immediately to what
I was doing, but I can fully understand that some wouldn't.

Regards, Ed

Hi Ed,

Well, let's put it in this way. I lived for 5 years in the UK. When I
came there, I thought I spoke reasonably English. I found out I didn't.
Yes, talking about technical issues was allright. But talking about
feelings, about moral and personal and social issues, and understanding
practical jokes is another thing. I learned a lot, but I still lack a
proper knowledge of English. Reading your postst require a dictionary to
find what you mean. That's a language issue, unfortunately. I wish I
could understand you - and many more Englisman - better.
Living there, I took a course of Cambridge and liturature, but I still
feel limited in understanding what you exactly mean.

Talking about moral and ethical issues, I feel that the world currently
is lacking of that. I'm not young. The youngsters nowadays have a
different attitude of which I'm not always happy.

Fokke

 

[Fokke Nauta]

Glad to hear it, man. What I was on about was a kind of ego-trip into
the notion of "moral and ethical".
I've thought of a simple contemporary example to illustrate the problem
far more succinctly.

Here in the UK we have a current big thing about racist behaviour in
soccer. We have lots of black players, and some supporters taunt them
with monkey grunts. A lot of it occurs abroad; most recently in Serbia.
And UEFA and the Serbian FA don't seem to latch onto it the same way
that we do; they don't perceive it with our sensibilities.
Well now, here's the problem stated objectively: is it right or wrong to
make monkey grunts at black players? Or, similarly, are we right; or are
UEFA right?

I don't see how you can apportion any truth-value to the above question.
Some say it's ok, some say it isn't. It's all a question of taste and
value; political-social question.

And that was my launch-pad for a whimsical trip through my own personal
moral maze. I'm sure some here would have latched on immediately to what
I was doing, but I can fully understand that some wouldn't.

Regards, Ed

And ofcourse it's not appropiate to make monkey grunts at black players.
Those who do, what the f** they think they are?

Fokke

 

[Fokke Nauta]

Also,

"Compare and contrast the ideal of free speech versus the reality of
Usenet".

Are we having fun yet? I am...

Imagine you live in Iran. No Google, no usenet. No internet. Only the
intranet they offer. Yes, I'm happy to live in a free world. Glad that
I'm born here.

Fokke

 

[Fokke Nauta]

Let's hope!

Well, today only the icons of my network shares were gone :-(
So - it did not make any sense. I guess I'd have to live with this ...

Fokke

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Fokke Nauta

Talking about moral and ethical issues, I feel that the world currently
is lacking of that. I'm not young. The youngsters nowadays have a
different attitude of which I'm not always happy.

Fokke

But sometimes, I find the young intrinsically accept and live by a
resistance to prejudice that makes me step back and look at myself. I
think a lot of things that our generation (especially some of the print
media in the UK) describe as "political correctness gone mad" are,
actually, truly adopted and accepted by the young. And, on the whole, I
think that's a good thing.

 

[Robin Bignall]

And ofcourse it's not appropiate to make monkey grunts at black players.
Those who do, what the f** they think they are?

I don't think there's much thought involved.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Well, today only the icons of my network shares were gone :-(
So - it did not make any sense. I guess I'd have to live with this ...

Fokke

One other thought just came to me.

I use a program called Fences, which enables me to set up a bunch of
windows on my screen with various icons inside each. One is labeled
Security, another Backup, another Internet, Mail, & News, and so on.

Two ideas come to mind.

1. Since it controls icon positioning, it might keep yours from getting
lost.

2. It has a "snapshot" function to save the current configuration, from
which you can restore the configuration if there's a problem. (There are
also other programs that have that capability.)

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

There is a free version, which I use, and a paid version.

 

[Ed Cryer]

I don't think there's much thought involved.

A bit like when western slave-traders transported hundreds of thousands
from Africa to the New World.
Times change.

Ed

 

[Bob I]

You running any add-ons that interfere with explorer (the desktop)?

 

[Ken Blake]

I use a program called Fences, which enables me to set up a bunch of
windows on my screen with various icons inside each. One is labeled
Security, another Backup, another Internet, Mail, & News, and so on.

By the way, this is much the same thing that you can do with the
Windows 8 Metro UI. No extra software required.

 

[Char Jackson]

Well, today only the icons of my network shares were gone :-(
So - it did not make any sense. I guess I'd have to live with this ...

Since it's essentially only affecting you, and by that I mean your PC,
it must be something unique to your setup. Look at the software you
have installed, especially the low level utilities, and examine your
own user behavior. What did you do today? Reboot? Update something?
Install or uninstall something? Have you ever seen similar behavior on
another PC? If so, what do the two PCs have in common?

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Since it's essentially only affecting you, and by that I mean your PC,
it must be something unique to your setup. Look at the software you
have installed, especially the low level utilities, and examine your
own user behavior. What did you do today? Reboot? Update something?
Install or uninstall something? Have you ever seen similar behavior on
another PC? If so, what do the two PCs have in common?

And, what happens if you _do_ run iconoid (http://www.sillysot.com/ -
yes, really!) or another icon-position rememberer: does it restore the
missing icons, suggesting they'd just moved, or have they entirely
disappeared?

 

[Fokke Nauta]

One other thought just came to me.

I use a program called Fences, which enables me to set up a bunch of
windows on my screen with various icons inside each. One is labeled
Security, another Backup, another Internet, Mail, & News, and so on.

Two ideas come to mind.

1. Since it controls icon positioning, it might keep yours from getting
lost.

2. It has a "snapshot" function to save the current configuration, from
which you can restore the configuration if there's a problem. (There are
also other programs that have that capability.)

http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

There is a free version, which I use, and a paid version.

This seems like a good idea. I will give it at try.

Fokke

 

[Fokke Nauta]

I don't think there's much thought involved.

I'm afraid you're right :-(

Fokke

 

[Fokke Nauta]

Ironically, or at least surprisingly and maybe annoyingly (and other
adverbs - I seem to be on a roll), today, November 3 2012, when I turned
this computer on, I had a notice telling me that Fences now has a
version 2, which seems to be no longer free, but at least it's only ~
$10 US for the basic version.

I didn't look too hard to see if the old version still is available or
if there's a free edition of v2.

I don't think there is still a free version available. But it's only $
10. And you can have a free try. I will check it out.

Fokke

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Fokke Nauta

I don't think there is still a free version available. But it's only $
10. And you can have a free try. I will check it out.

Fokke

1.01 freeware:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/610134/Stardock-Fences?q=fences
possibly. The process seemed so tortuous that I abandoned it.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <[email protected]>, Fokke Nauta


1.01 freeware:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/610134/Stardock-Fences?q=fences
possibly. The process seemed so tortuous that I abandoned it.

Better - 1.0 and 1.01: http://www.downloadoldversion.com/fences.html