Fix generic icons.

Question

All of my icons on the desktop have changed.Now they all have a generic icon on top of the real icon.This even happens when I install a new program.I have deleted the iconcache file and rebooted, but that did not help.Any ideas?

Answer 1

The problem is not caused by deleting iconcache file. You might have applied some tweak to remove shortcut arrow from shortcut icons and the icon reference is missing to replace the default arrow icon.

So either you can restore to default setting or Run Registry Editor **(regedit.exe)**and go to - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Shell Iconsand delete the value called 29You may need to restart or logoff your PC to take effect.

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• Ramesh Kumar http://www.WindowsValley.com

Answer 2

I'm guessing this will fix my problem as well, however, I'm on Win 7 and this regedit path does not exist on my machine... alternate path?

Answer 3

Thanks a ton Ramesh... this was the exact fix I was searching for and after a bunch of failed attempts following google advice I went to the source.. where I should have went in the first place... your answer to this problem was the one I needed! Great job man.

Answer 4

I have almost similar problem.

I got my shortcut icon became invincible most the time i turned on the win7

I used the tweak to remove the shortcut arrow too and re-sized the icon to the smallest.

Help pls, thanks b4.

Answer 5

I have quite similar problem.

My shortcut icon sometimes became invincible almost everytime I turned on win7 (the shortcut exists and can runs the program perfectly but the icon picture is missing).

I resized the icon to smallest and used the tweak to removed shortcut arrows too.

The thing is when you resized the icon back to normal (normal icon just partly visible) or larger icon, it's became visible again.

Can you help me ? Thanks before.