I didn't get any answers the first time I asked and still need computer tech help..please..pretty please?

Question

could you help a non computer person with a problem..please..I was messing with my pictures for desktop.?
I went to view (arrange icons by name) and was changing a few names so I could organzie them into categories, & they would be grouped together (like flower-zinnias, flowers,-lilies, cartoons-popeye.,etc
The problem is now I notice some pictures have the wrong picture..For example, a picture of mickey mouse, a name of a flower, & a picture of a flower.

No idea what happened to mickey- the picture on the icon that when I set to desktop instead is a flower.

Mickey is there twice--once on the right desktop picture (after I click that option) & once on the wrong desktop picture when I click it shows a flower instead.
I tried copying & I get the right picture a& icon and desktop but when I try to rename it so it doesn't say copy (in order to group it with the other flowers..it let's me change the name, but also changes it back to mickey picture.

Hope that's understandable.I want them all to be right pictures, icons, and desktop but with no files that say the words copy of on em

Answer 1

This is hard to follow. By "pictures for desktop" I guess you mean desktop backgrounds, aka wallpaper. I don't know what you mean by icon, unless you mean the view options in the window where you keep the image files?

In any case, when copying, you can avoid "copy of" by right clicking the file and choosing Copy, then going to a place different from the place the file to be copied is located, and rightclicking a blank space there and choosing Paste. Renaming is easy enough.

So if your image files are in a folder, then take the files that have the wrong thumbnail image out of the folder and put them into another folder, by right clicking on them and choosing Cut, then rightclick on an empty space in the new folder and choose paste.

Then all your odd behaving image files will be together. Then restart your computer, to make Windows release whatever it is holding onto, if that is in fact the problem [it happens]. Then go back to the problem files and see what has happened, and if they are the same [wrong picture in the thumbnail view], then try this: go to My Computer, Local Disc C, rightclick that, choose Properties on the bottom, and when you get the dialog box, choose Tools, choose Check Now under Error checking, check the box that says automatically fix errors, and you will get a popup message that says you have to restart for this, so restart, and wait for the checkdisk to finish. When it finishes, Windows will start up and then go to the folder and see what has happened.

Don't forget that the desktop properties utility you get when you right click the desktop keeps a list of desktop backgrounds that have been used, and this renaming of files could have confused things there. You can set your desktop background just by double clicking an image file, like .jpg, and rightclicking the picture in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and choosing Set as desktop background.

Answer 2

I left you an answer on the first one. It is the same thing as the system restore answer you have here. I would not do anything until I tried that option first.
lol I do stuff like this all the time. I have a good friend in India who helps me when I screw up like this.
relax it can be fixed or it can be completely wiped away and start over. done that a lot of times.

Answer 3

attempt restarting in secure mode. It truly sounds like the settings contained in the BIOS have replaced so as that the computing gadget would not word of plug and play units. in case you could not get the computing gadget to word of both one then you honestly if truth be told don't have an enter gadget and don't have a fashion to do something. i do not comprehend in case you should use distant get authentic of entry to to fix it or no longer. you should reinstall abode windows. Or it will be the motherboard.

Answer 4

Right mouse click the icon and go to properties choose change Icon. If the Icon is not listed click on Browse to where it is then click on it and click OK

Answer 5

your problem may be from any number of causes. i would recommend getting someone who knows computers to actually look at it. it may be something like you accidentally dragging it onto something else, or maybe the properties getting messed up, or even the original picture getting deleted.

that problem isnt something that you will be able to have us help you with here, as there are many questions that we would need to ask you about it. you're going to be needing to have a conversation, not just a single question and answer.

Answer 6

If you have a system restore use it, go back before you made the changes to your computer.

Answer 7

i dont get u.