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Folder Icons are broken in Windows 7 Explorer – I think I am close
The Folder Icons on my daughter’s laptop are broken in Windows Explorer.
She’s running:
Dell Laptop, Windows 7 Pro 64bit
We moved her from an old Alienware Laptop so we don’t have a restore point
Here’s what I did…I’ve almost got it, but need a last bit of help
1)Ran sfc scan on her machine
2)I have a similar Dell Laptop running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit as well.
I copied the imageres.dll files from my (good) machine onto her machine
We did this for both the system32 directory and the SysWow64 directory
This was successful.
3)I deleted the thumbnail cache on her machine
4)I rebuilt the icon cache on her machine and rebooted
5)This was tried 2x
It didn’t work
One more piece of Information.
If I manually go to one of her folders in windows explorer with a broken Icon and:
right click the icon à Customize Tab à Change Icon… à and then change the “Look for icons in this file:” path
from: %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
to: %SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll
It fixes the problem for that individual folder….that folder only.
That is why the icon is correct for the apps folder in the image.
Thanks!