Black Clock on all Icons???

Stuee · 20-11-2006, 18:34

Can someone tell me what's happened to my Windows icons, They appear to have what look like a small black square with a clock?? on them in the bottom left hand corner

Many Thanks

Stuart

big1 · 20-11-2006, 20:33

Might be easier if you included some details as to your operating system, whether you have scanned for spyware\virus's a picture might even help. Ie: press 'prnscrn' or Print Screen key and open paint, save an image of one of the offending icons and upload it to somewhere like imageshack.us then someone might have a clue as to what you're referring too.

As presently, it's like me looking out the window and posting a topic 'well look at that'.

HTH

Faythur · 20-11-2006, 21:59

Seems to be a bit of a weird problem.

Found this:

I think you'll find that is a black clock.
This means that the file has been archived to tape and will take a very long time to access.
The black clock is sometimes seen even if your system is not equipped with Hierarchical Storage Management. When this happens, it's because some program (typically a setup program) didn't check error codes properly.

CopyFileAttributes(LPCTSTR pszSrc, LPTSTR pszDst)
**
SetFileAttributes(pszDst, GetFileAttributes(pszSrc));
**

The above code fragment fails to check for an error code from GetFileAttributes. It so happens that GetFileAttributes fails by returning the value 0xFFFFFFFF. If you fail to check this error code, you end up setting every possible attribute on the destination, including FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE. FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE is the flag that tells Explorer that the file has been archived to tape.

Standard overlay icons are:

A small arrow: Shortcut icons have a small arrow in the lower-left corner.
A small hand: Indicates a shared folder.
A small blue arrow (downward-pointing): Files to be written to CD.
A pair of blue swirling arrows: Offline folders.
A small black clock: The file has been archived.

The guy with the problem seemed to atribute it to X Copy program.

Never really got a fix

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