# how come my NT4 computer icon keeps changing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-my-nt4-computer-icon-keeps-changing/63455>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-my-nt4-computer-icon-keeps-changing/63455 "2001-04-26T23:33:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![ptdang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@ptdang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ptdang)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2001, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-my-nt4-computer-icon-keeps-changing/63455/1 "2001-04-26T23:33:39Z")

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I’m referring to the icon of my computer found inside Windows NT Explorer. It’s below Desktop and above the drive hierarchy.

Right click on that icon and select Properties pops up the System Properties window.

Some days, the icon might show Visual SourceSafe and other days it would show Microsoft Word. Pretty random.

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-my-nt4-computer-icon-keeps-changing/63455/2 "2001-04-27T13:53:08Z")

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This is a known problem - you can probably find it by searching the Microsoft Knowledge Base ( [http://support.microsoft.com](http://support.microsoft.com) )

TweakUI fixes it.