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Hi rich, I have the same problem (ie: microsoft icons do not show after updating graphics card driver + monitor + ethernet switch). I tried a system restore first and it did not fix the problem.
So then I reinstalled the driver updates and it only made the problem worse.... instead of only the microsoft office icons appearing as "no icon" now skype and adobe reader icons show the same behaviour. So I ran the rebuild_icon_cache.bat file and all that did was to change the icon from the "no icon" to some other icon that looks like a default "shortcut" icon of some sort. Also, I tried to uninstall skype and that gave an error and didn't work. So I tried another system restore to undo the rebuild_icon_cache changes but that then produced an unstable reboot (ie: entire display was black, then upon restarting windows started in safemode)
edit: after shutting down from the safemode boot and rebooting again a couple of times I'm back here but still cannot uninstall skype. In the beginning only the file type icons for xlsx and docx files would not display (in explorer or from within excel open recent file pane) but the desktop ones and xlsm or xls filetype icons were ok. Along the way, each time I tried to fix something, it was like the problem only got gradually worse, so now the desktop icons and ALL filetype icons for microsoft office are displayed as "no icon".
Any suggestions????