>>Go download and install tweakui. It's a microsoft control panel, unsupported in win95, but works very well. It has an option to repair icons. You can get it from download.com.
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>Umm, thanks Rip, but I took a look, and the warning scared me off. This user is not even in my server domain, and if anything goes wrong, I will be in hot water. I was hoping for just a local property adjustment of some sort...

Well you know how those warnings are. But I've used tweakui since 96 and never had a problem with it. It was a control panel that was very useful so MS shipped it with Win98 and now with Win2k although you have to go on the CD to install it. It is supported in Win98 and Win2k but not Win95. I don't know if it is supported for WinNt 4.0 but there is a version.