• Programs sporadically losing their icons?
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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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