No, it was me. I've been having problems lately with lag, internet freezing, and typing lag. I thought it might be because I was running out of memory. I deleted a bunch of programs/files and did a disk clean-up. That freed a good amount of space. I also defragged the C drive and ran a registry cleaner (which is what i think screwed up the icons).
I'm still having a lot of internet/typing lag.