I did what seemed like a pointless driver upgrade for my ATI Radeon card to get rid of the Doom III dandruff (a swarm of bright specks) that was making the game difficult to play. But what really seemed to have done the trick was upgrading to DirectX 9.0C. Of course, that (or perhaps the Radeon driver upgrade) mysteriously locked all the icons on my desktop. No, “Lock icons” wasn’t checked, and setting it and unsetting it only made my icons blink angrily (truly). For some bizarre reason, going into Display Properties > Desktop > Customize Desktop > Web and clicking “Lock desktop icons,” applying, and then unclicking it worked.

XP. Go figure.

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