Windows 7 Icons are not showing

I've seen multiple posts here and other forums and I have tried all of the steps provided in those posts but it is not resolving my issue. I have the exact same issue as the user in THIS THREAD. I have tried the icon database rebuild (both manually and using the bat file HERE), I have tried...

Why is it that sometimes the folders icons show samples of their contents and sometimes not? Check the two images: the first shows Desktop in Windows Explorer; the second shows the desktop itself. Any idea on how to make Windows always show the folders contents samples? TIA.

So, here's the deal. My mom's laptop computer's hard drive just died. I ran at-home diagnostics on it, tried it on a different computer, and listened for abnormal sounds while connected externally. I'm about 95% sure it's dead. I dropped it off at the local PC repair shop to get a second...

I have just built a new computer, using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, however, I've noticed when I open Windows explorer, 3 out of 4 times it will continuously search for drives when opening up explorer and not show any drives that are installed. I've tried reformatting, using different hard drives, but...

Hi everyone, I'm having another complete nightmare problem on my brand new Dell XPS running Win x64 Ultimate. When I try to customise what behaviour the various icons exhibit on the taskbar (and I'm taken to CONTROL PANEL- ALL CONTROL PANEL ITEMS-NOTIFICATION AREA ICONS), some of the icons...