Help with Icons On Desktop After Win 7 Install


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    windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
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    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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    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    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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    windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
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    richc46 said:
    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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    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
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    You can try going to your windows.old folder. Click on computer>, c:> windows.old.
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
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    Try the 'fix' that Shawn gave me: Internet Shortcut - Vista Forums
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    windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
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    Not working!
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
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    Have you rebooted yet? If not, see if that will bring the icon back
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    windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
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    Jacee said:
    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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    W7 Pro
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    Get rid of FB and Myspace and you wouldn't have that problem! JK
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    windows 7 Upgrade Home Premium on a 64 bit notebook
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    toughbook said:
    Get rid of FB and Myspace and you wouldn't have that problem! JK
    LOL and all my games
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