Windows 7: Programs pinned to taskbar, loose their Icon

I have Windows 7 RC installed on two different computers and this has happened on both.



I'll install a program I use a lot, pin it to the taskbar and some of the icons will lose their original icon after awhile. It doesn't seem to effect the operation of the program or the shortcut to the program, it's just sort of annoying to have to curse over the pinned program to know what it is, instead of just being able to tell by its icon. The programs this happens to are not the same from machine to machine, either. If that makes sense.

Has anyone else come across this and were you able to remedy the issue?

Cheers!

Tones; Please allow me to welcome you to Windows Seven Forums. We are glad to have you here.

Please check the following settings; you must have "Store and display recently opened programs in the Start menu" checked for the taskbar to work as designed. Not sure if this would cause your icon issue, but it is related.





Robert

Hopefully it's something that they have fixed by October. It does still occur occasionally with RTM.

The things pinned to the taskbar have their shortcuts stored at the following:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

I've gotten around it prior by just changing the shortcut, which itself has been lacking the icon at times.

You can try pinning the same program to the start menu, for example, then take that shortcut (hopefully with icon) and move it to the taskbar folder.

Start menu icons after pinning are located here:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu

Thanks to you both. I will try those out tonight when I get home from work and see what comes of it. Really appreciate the responses!

I'm also experiancing this problem, under Windows 7-64 RTM. Had it happen a couple times under RC1 as well.

Creating a new shortcut and then pinning it to the taskbar seems to solve it for me.

I find that even under program files the icon for these actual programs is a generic one, so when I would try to re-do the pinning it would just pin the generic one over again.

Thanks again for your response. I have both of those options on your image checked, should I just have the one checked? Either way, it doesn't seem to solve it. Thanks though!

Yeah, one of the things i've run into with this, is that after the icon becomes the generic one, it is the generic icon for that program everywhere. So when I drag it to the icons menu you just told me about, it drags the generic one.

I posted on this the other day in another thread. The problem is not confined to the taskbar but manifests throughout Windows Explorer, except, oddly enough, in the property sheets for the affected files, which show the correct icons. I solve it temporarily by logging out and deleting iconcache.db, but it seems to recur every couple of weeks. I'm using a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate RTM x86.

I think another solution with the same results as above is Change your screen resolution. Reboot this forces a rewrite of the icon cache. You can now change your resolution back to whatever.