Windows 7: Some icons disappear and are replaced by generic ones

For some reason icons for certain programs will disapear and be replaced with the 'generic window' windows icon. I'll upload a screen shot. First it happend with opera. and now with d3doverrider. Additionally I think I was using the program when it happened, so that may be contributing to the cause.

no sadly that didn't do the trick, thanks for helping though. any other ideas?

From one of the many tutorials here onsite. It should help you.

Icon Cache - Rebuild

Bump for help?

My "Everything Search" exe icon looks like that too. As far as I know that's the only one doing this. The program works fine and the taskbar shortcut has the right icon pic too. The other 4 files in that folder are all common windows files like ini and txt, and they all are fine.

I found that I could move a copy of the exe anywhere else and it would have the right icon, but whenever I put it back in it's own folder it would lose the icon. I made a new folder and moved all of the contents from the old to the new folder and icon was there. I gave the folder the same name as the old one... the icon went away. WTH? I changed the name of the folder slightly and voila, the icon is back.

Don't ask me why, but try it and see if that works.

Rusty

Wow that is most odd! I did what you said, I copied the file from its original folder to a different folder (on a different partition) and the icon returned! Then I copied the new icon back to the desktop and it was still good. The weird part is, when I copy the new icon back into its original folder... it goes back to the old 'generic' form! I don't get it. At least I have my icon back on the desktop but it is a temporary fix to a problem that is likely to be persistent. (at least for me)

Thanks to rusty for the tip!

first try to reinstall with elevated privilege, and also send download link of that software(if u have), so that i try in my system

I've had the same problem with larger (but not smaller) icons for Adobe Reader files, all icons for IntelliType and IntelliPoint. I haven't tried the trick of moving or renaming them.

Note: rebuilding the icon cache was of no value. I also performed an SFC /scannow in elevated privilege mode with no results.

Does anyone know if Microsoft is aware of this issue?

My computer just quit doing it. If I recall, I deleted "C:\Users\owner\AppData\Local\IconCache.db" and it's been okay ever since.