Reduplicating icons

I have Reduplicating icons on my XP Home desktop and don't know why. I ran Norton's and it shows no virus.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing ? This started 2 days ago.

that was an email I received from a friend and don't know what to do to stop this from happening.
They removed the duplicated icons and they came back. any suggestions ?

 

Hi Sultan,

Did you see and try anything found in this archived post?

http://windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=27382&highlight=duplicated+icons

Should have made a correction or pointed that if choosing to use the manual regedit suggested in this past post:

Change CommonDesktop from:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop
To:
CommonDesktop
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop

That the drive letter C:\should be changed to reflect your particular partition or drive letter, (this may not be C:\ )

 

Ok, thanks for the info.