[Bascotie]

UPDATE: I spoke a little too soon. I guess something I did yesterday brought IconCache.db back BUT my icons are still messed up. I tried renaming it to .old and restarting to no avail.




Hi guys,

All my microsoft office 2007 and many other icons changed to the default white page icon for all my shortcuts/start menu/desktop icons. I tried rebuilding IconCache about 3 times to no avail. I've searched around for a while and found something about IconCache.db but it is not present in C:\Users\Me\AppData\Local. I have hidden files as shown and I even tried showing system files. I still cannot find it.

Any ideas? Thanks

Note: I would like to avoid doing a restore/reformat. Thanks

[Window]

Right click on desktop
>select screen resolution
>click on advanced settings
>select adapter tab
>click on list all modes
>(before you do this take note of the mode that you are currently using)select a 16 bit mode
>Click on OK
>Click on OK again and then apply. Now go back to list all modes and select the 32 bit mode you were using. This should rebuild the .db file.

[Bascotie]

Thanks Window,

i tried it once before but I tried again just to see. Still no luck. For a moment when clicking ok to switch back to 32 bit mode I see a flash of icons where the generic icons are (though they are not the correct ones) and then it goes back to how it was.

[Ent]

Just a quick question, do the shortcuts themselves still work? I mean if you click on the IE shortcut, though it doesn't have the blue e icon, does it open Internet explorer? That might differentiate between a flaw in the icons and a flaw in the shortcuts.
Also does this only affect shortcuts, or are other files (programs, documents, etc) also affected?

[Bascotie]

hi Ent,

The files still open with the approrpiate programs. It does not only affect shortcuts, I have some documents on the desktop that are located there and they have the same issue

[Ent]

What about restoring the default registry association for the icon handler.

I don't know what OS you're using, presuming 7.
This might be what you're looking for.

If it were XP this one might help?

[Bascotie]

Originally Posted by Ent

What about restoring the default registry association for the icon handler.

I don't know what OS you're using, presuming 7.
This might be what you're looking for.

If it were XP this one might help?

Thanks. I tried it, restarted, but still the same =-/

I'm starting to fear that this is why people resorted to a restore/reformat. Maybe after this final school quarter is over I'll just back up and wipe everything like I should do anyway. Unless anyone has any other ideas? haha