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Windows 7 - Icon went missing in Windows 7? Here's a Fix
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| 08-19-2009 | #1 |
| | Icon went missing in Windows 7? Here's a Fix Icon went missing in Windows 7? Here's a Fix After installing the latest and greatest Mozilla Firefox 3.5 in Windows 7 (RC Build 7100 32-bit) I noticed that after a while the icon went missing. Firefox was still working correctly, and when I checked the icon properties, and the icon was still present. But for some strange reason it wouldn’t show up in on my Desktop, my Start Menu, or my Taskbar, I would just see a broken icon.  The resolution? Rebuilding the Windows 7 Icon Cache. Follow these directions: Icon Cache - Rebuild Your icons should be as good as new!  Last edited by Brink; 04-14-2011 at 10:10 PM.. Reason: added link |
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| 10-23-2009 | #2 |
| | Thank you very much for this. It worked perfectly. Lots of people around having this problem too. Cheers, :-) |
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| 10-23-2009 | #3 |
| | Thanks, I never knew how to fix this! |
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| 10-29-2009 | #4 |
| | THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This worked perfectly! |
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| 10-30-2009 | #5 |
| | I am finding this happens quite regularly. So I have written a little script to do it automatically. I will post links to it later once tested properly. :-) |
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| 10-30-2009 | #6 |
| | Thanks for sharing this very handy tip Young Hype. If i have this issue i usually delete the iconcache.db in Explorer an then reboot, this takes the reboot out of the equation i assume? Quote: I am finding this happens quite regularly. So I have written a little script to do it automatically. I will post links to it later once tested properly. :-)  |
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| 11-23-2009 | #7 |
| | Thanks a lot man, I just installed Windows 7 Premium, and got all my programs installed using Ninite, then some of my beautiful taskbar icons reverted to generic form. I looked around for a while but only this one helped, thnx! =) |
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| 11-24-2009 | #8 |
| | Hi I tried this, the icon is still missing for me!, I have taken a screenshot for any help. Many Thanks Hugh |
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| 11-25-2009 | #9 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by hughfraser  Hi I tried this, the icon is still missing for me!, I have taken a screenshot for any help. Many Thanks Hugh Have you tried this tutorial? Icon Cache - Rebuild Last edited by Brink; 01-20-2010 at 11:35 PM.. Reason: updated link |
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| 11-25-2009 | #10 |
| | Thanks rsvr85, In the end I had to uninstall Firefox, I never lost any passwords or bookmarks as I use Roboform and Xmarks. Thanks. Hugh Fraser |
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