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11-16-2009   #1


windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
 
 

Help with Icons On Desktop After Win 7 Install

Well I installed windows 7 home P upgrade over vista Home P. All is ok but some of my desktop icons like Yahoo, Myspace, FB, are white pieces of paper with a small fold top right and the icon is in the middle and real small..Any fixes for this?

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11-16-2009   #2


Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, clean install, upgrade disc
 
 


Right click, go to properties, and look around for change icon. You may have to use the tabs on top to find it, but it is there. Let us know what happens
Richard
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11-16-2009   #3


windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
 
 


Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by richc46 View Post
Right click, go to properties, and look around for change icon. You may have to use the tabs on top to find it, but it is there. Let us know what happens
Richard
The Yahoo, Google, FB etc icons are not in there...
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11-16-2009   #4


Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, clean install, upgrade disc
 
 


You can try going to your windows.old folder. Click on computer>, c:> windows.old.
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11-16-2009   #5


Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
 
 


Try the 'fix' that Shawn gave me: Internet Shortcut - Vista Forums
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11-16-2009   #6


windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
 
 


Not working!
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11-16-2009   #7


Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
 
 


Have you rebooted yet? If not, see if that will bring the icon back
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11-16-2009   #8


windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
 
 


Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by Jacee View Post
Have you rebooted yet? If not, see if that will bring the icon back
Oh yeah..I installed win 7 yesterday..I have FF and IE 8 so I was just playing around with IE 8 and made a short cut for FB and it worked full size..Now I went to do it again with Myspace and it was small
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11-16-2009   #9


 
 


Get rid of FB and Myspace and you wouldn't have that problem! JK
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11-16-2009   #10


windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
 
 


Quote   Quote: Originally Posted by toughbook View Post
Get rid of FB and Myspace and you wouldn't have that problem! JK
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