missing shortcut icons

I'm not sure what happened, but some applications and their associated files have lost their icons somehow. Tried looking up some solutions to this, but I haven't found any that worked for me.

word document
office icons missing

Hi eft890... welcome to sevenforums
try to re-install that program...

Boot into safe mode, then reboot into Windows normally. See if that works.

Bare Foot Kid said:

Hello eft890.



Have a look at the tutorial at the link below to see if it'll solve your issue, be sure to keep us informed.

Icon Cache - Rebuild

I've tried this method and nothing =(.

nihil said:

Boot into safe mode, then reboot into Windows normally. See if that works.

Also didn't work.

newbie87 said:

Hi eft890... welcome to sevenforums
try to re-install that program...

I'm trying to find a more efficient way, because it's happening to a lot of programs, not just the office suite.

Brink said:

Hello EFT,

If this is happening to all of your shortcut (LNK file extension) files, then you might see if using the lnk download in the tutorial below may be able to help with this.

Default File Type Associations - Restore

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I just tried this and it also didn't work, but I see what you're getting at with this one. Problem is, it's not only happening to .lnk's, its also happening to .doc's, .ppt's, .accdb's, etc.

Did you use a cleaning program prior to this incedent? if so check to see if there is a restore point, or even better a .bak file, or any other type of backup file.

For instance in CCleaner, you have the option to back up your registry before you delete un-needed or problematic entries.

I tried a system restore and from before this started happening and I still got the same icons =\