Bit of a weird issue that has just started appearing today on my new rig.
It seems that whenever I boot up my computer certain programs installed on my SSD will not have their icons, if I open the program then restart Explorer they will get their icons back but they can also lose their icons again later on.
I think I may have an idea what is causing this but I don't know why it's still happening. I foolishly tried to change where installers point by default which in turn broke every single shortcut I had previously gotten, but I set the registry value back to it's previous value which fixed all those shortcuts... Or so I thought.
This isn't just the shortcuts though, looking at the program's install directories the icons are missing there too. This isn't ALL programs on my SSD though, I haven't seen it happen with any of the Adobe creative suite, nor with Winamp or Steam.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ipkni.png[/IMG]
See the white icon? That's VLC and it's what both the Chrome and the Tweetdeck icons looked like when I booted up the computer. If I were to restart explorer the VLC icon will mend and look right again.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I could fix it?
[editline]2nd September 2011[/editline]
I just ran CCLeaner and restarted but that didn't help.
[editline]2nd September 2011[/editline]
It's also note-worthy that it always seems to be the same programs that lose their icons.
Namely:
VLC
Notepad ++
Chrome
MalwareBytes
Defraggler
Speccy
FileZilla
Try rebuilding your icon cache:
[url]http://smallvoid.com/article/windows-icon-cache.html[/url]
Daha! That got it, thanks a lot mate.
I was just about to re-install all those programs as well.
[editline]2nd September 2011[/editline]
Hm, although for some reason changing the resolution back to small has made all the text in context menus and tabs really tiny?
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LAf6g.png[/IMG]
[editline]2nd September 2011[/editline]
Nevermind, I played around with custom text resolutions until it looked normal again.
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