Enchantermon on 9/4/2010 at 21:21
Okay, here's an odd one for you: one day, several icon pictures just decided to up and vanish. For example, I have an iTunes icon on my desktop. After this happened, it was still there, but it had the standard Windows "No program associated with this file" icon instead of the iTunes logo. Using the shortcut would still open iTunes, however. The same has happened with several other programs, including Windows Messenger and all 11 of my Office programs. Also, all user-created Office files (documents, spreadsheets, etc.) are also missing their pictures. Any ideas as to what may have happened? I found a little batch file (code included below) that rebuilds IconCache.db which has been reported to fix this problem when it happens to Office, so I tried it, thinking it would fix Office and everything else, but no luck. Reboot does nothing. Ideas?
Batch file:
Code:
@echo off
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
attrib -h "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db"
del "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db"
start explorer.exe
cls
echo Icon cache cleared!
pause
EDIT: D'oh, sorry, Windows 7 Professional, 32-bit.
Nameless Voice on 10/4/2010 at 00:51
Did you try rebooting after running that fix and/or manually deleting IconCache.db from AppData\Local?
You could also try going into the properties for one of the affected shortcuts and manually re-assigning its icon. That would be tedious to do for all of them, though, and might not work anyway.
I don't suppose you recently rearranged your drive letters? ;)
Enchantermon on 10/4/2010 at 02:17
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Did you try rebooting after running that fix and/or manually deleting IconCache.db from AppData\Local?
Yes. No change.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
You could also try going into the properties for one of the affected shortcuts and manually re-assigning its icon. That would be tedious to do for all of them, though, and might not work anyway.
Yeah...I did that for iTunes and a couple other programs, but when I noticed that Office and its related files were affected too, I stopped. There's no way I'm doing that for all of the Office files I have.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I don't suppose you recently rearranged your drive letters? ;)
Nope. Haven't touched them.
foghorn on 28/4/2010 at 19:24
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
Yes. No change.
Yeah...I did that for iTunes and a couple other programs, but when I noticed that Office and its related files were affected too, I stopped. There's no way I'm doing that for all of the Office files I have.
Nope. Haven't touched them.
I'm having the same problem. Just happened yesterday. The only thing I did was an Adobe reader repair AND a bad installation of Nero. Ended up running Nero cleaner, which didn't fix Nero and since then I haven't had my icon images.
I've deleted the iconcache.db and restored one from a week old backup. I "repaired" adobe again, and that got that icon fixed, but none of the others.
I'm stumped.
gunsmoke on 30/4/2010 at 22:06
The Sony Vaio I lent my neighbor has this same issue. He is big into pirating rather openly, and scans the web for porn constantly. Asshole. I think he got a virus or somesuch, but if anyone has any advice save for a reformat, let me know.
BTW, I told him just to keep the damn thing.
