Windows 7 - USB Icon not showing up

My usb icon does not show. Its not a big deal but it really annoys me when things dont work the way they are supposed to especially when they used to. This happened about a month ago. I turned on my laptop and bam, all of a sudden icons arent showing up and looking through forums i have fixed all but one. When i plug in any mass storage device (usb; flash drive, external hard drive, mp3 player) the icon shows a general icon as if the icon was missing. I have attatched a picture so you can see exactly what I am talking about. If anyone knows how to fix this it would be GREATLY appreciated.

hi Alex, and welcome to sevenforums,

If one or more of your icons are not displaying correctly, or that your icon cache is corrupted, then you might consider rebuilding the icon cache to reset and reload the icon images into the icon cache.

try this - and let us know if it worked.

you may have to reboot after doing it.

Thank you for the help. I thought it might have been a problem with the icon cache but i just rebuilt using your link and my problem still remains. I have rebooted my computer and also removed and re inserted my usb flash drive

sorry, that was my one and only idea.

hopefully somebody will be around soon who can suggest something else.

what would we do without Brink?

Thank you guys verrryy much. I will have you know that my problem is fixed and i am quite happy about that. I am glad i found this site and will probably come here asap next time i have a problem. You guys are awesome! Thank You!