Rebooted the computer and all my desktop icons turned white


  1. adamdo
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit.
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    Rebooted the computer and all my desktop icons turned white


    I rebooted the computer and when I got my desktop back all the cons for third party apps are the default white icon as you can see in my screenshot.

    I have tried re-building the icon cache by following the instructions on the forum Icon Cache - Rebuild

    I can rebuild from a 3 day old image backup but I don't want to have to do that! Anyone got any more tips for trying to work it out - I tried to change one or two manually using the properties/change icon but that did not stay changed for some reason.

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  3. krustykobb
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    you could try doing a system restore to a previous point where your icons were working; this is my only suggestion other than to try re-building the icon cache again
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  4. ICIT2LOL
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Well for my 2 cents worth Adam I would be first doing these


    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html < use the /f and /r switch option in Option 2 ifnecessary
    then these

    http://www.superantispyware.com/

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

    download from bleeping computer – delete any rubbishthese find.
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