What is wrong with FR, again. Won’t completely load.
Restore to a previous point and examine your last install with suspicion.
You could try checking your Display settings in Control Panel.
What program did you just install?
I would start with uninstalling the last program, or doing a System Restore to a point more than 2 days ago.
Also, might I recommend for future use, CC Cleaner (which is a free registry and temp file cleaner that works really good at cleaning your system) and Super AntiSpyware (which is a free anti-spyware program that works really good at removing bad cookies, spyware, trojans, etc).
XP can at times lose its mind when it comes to what icons to assign. Sounds dumb, but see if restarting wakes it up, or as another poster said, uninstall the latest addition.
Out of curiosity (unless I missed it) what did you install before they changed colors?
P.S. Sometimes a loose monitor cable can cause ‘color’ problems. If it’s only the icons that have weird colors, then that likely isn’t the problem, but it’s worth checking.
Try repairing the icons with tweakui
It’s the NSA copying your files. (Just kidding.)
It's not there.
I hope somebody at Microsoft got fired for that one.