Icons on desktop blink rapidly

Hello
Win XP. on startup it goes to desktop and ALL icons blink rapidly,they can be stopped by clicking on start.
What's happening??
MIR11

 

Do you have a lot of programs loading at startup?

 

Icons on desktop blinking rapidly

it is XP Professional and has a lot of programs in it,how do we find out what runs on startup

 

Go to Start > Run and type msinfo32 and press the Enter key.

Click the (+) sign next to Software Environment.

Select Startup Programs. System Information will now generate the list of startup entries.

Once the right-pane is populated, click the File menu and choose Export.

Type in a name, such as Startup, and save it somewhere convenient. I usually save it to the Desktop.

 

Icons on desktop blinking rapidly

Thank You
MIR11