A friend had a similar? well when i say simmilar i mean probably exactly the same but his problem with the icons was caused by using stylexpee to change the icons and try to get away without using the icon packager software. she resulted in phantom icons changing back and forth upon page max and minimise,refresh and restarts and bootup. i solved this by backing up his personal gear and doing a clean install i purchased the full stardock with everything that opens and closes for her birthday now it runs like a system with a Athlon 64 4800+ Dual Core and Gigabyte GX2 7950 Ultra 1GB gddr3 , 4GB registered buffered DDR4000/PC500 CL3 should. We have twin systems i let her go buy the hardware upgrades and if they produce good results then i usualy get the same Hardware Hence me Doing all the software stuff for her.she has more cash than i do so if she makes a stuff up purchase i suppose she can swallow it. I got so sick of all the hardware upgrades she did i needed to see if it was the hardware or the software that was the issue so it turned out to be it just required a clean install. I only upped my card from a 7600gt to a 7950 GX2 and all the stardock features came alive like i have never seen before. I sugest to any one if you have money to burn

I do not get yourself a big fast card that takes it all away from your CPU. I hardley noticed anything in the way of interface performance by installing a Athlon 64 4800+ Dual core from a 3800+ Dual core I am using 4GB Reg Buff also but i have now OC my system at around 3.45GHZ Theoreticaly 6.9 GHZ i took it out to 3.62ghz theoreticaly 7.24ghz

. I decided to wind it down a little as i detected i think some instability.I dont usualy Overclock but have all the necessary hardware fitted to do so and i was actualy frightened but i thought stuff it the 3800+ DC felt the same speed as a 4800+DC so i had to test the waters. all works good. i have 3D mark 2001 and that shows the actual 2 processor scores as one IE: 2X2.4 Is 4.8 and so on. all boulds after show the dual GPU and Dual Core.