Icons Gone after installing new iTunes

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  1. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #1

    Icons Gone after installing new iTunes


    I just upgraded iTunes from 10.01 to 10.1.056 tonight 11-25-2010 and my desktop icons have all been distorted.
    When I r-click > Properties on them and try to restore them via Change Icon... I get a message saying the program was not found.
    However if I double click the program it launches and works just fine.
    I have made NO changes at all to the computer other than I just downloaded the latest iTunes and upgraded.
    Here is a picture of what they look like:

    Icons Gone after installing new iTunes-untitled-1.jpg
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  2. Posts : 11,840
    64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro
       #2

    If one or more of your icons are not displaying correctly, or that your icon cache is corrupted, then you might consider rebuilding the icon cache to reset and reload the icon images into the icon cache.

    Icon Cache - Rebuild
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  3. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I tried that.
    Followed nr 1 here and it didn't work.
    Icon Cache - Rebuild
    The icons are still covered with that blank program image in front of them.
    I also tried to R-click on the desktop and change the icon size but it didn't help either.
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  4. Posts : 11,840
    64-bit Windows 8.1 Pro
       #4

    Just for grins and giggles, do a system restore to a point in time before you did the upgrade ...
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  5. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Dang! I just noticed that all program icons now look like that Not just the desktop icons!
    Every program icon in the entire computer now looks like this.

    What's also weird is that when I drag a shortcut to a website from the browser's address bar onto the desktop it automatically looks like this with that blank icon in front the real icon.
    I also just installed a software and the icon for it had that same look as well.
    The only thing on my computer that does not have this image are folder icons.
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  6. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Restore point did nothing.
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  7. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #7

    This is pretty ridiculous...........

    This is what Admin Tools > Services now looks like:

    Icons Gone after installing new iTunes-untitled-2.jpg
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  8. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #8

    Run a full and updated virus scan
    Download and run a full updated malwarebytes scan.
    Can be a coincidence or could be that the update has spyware
    Lets find out.
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  9. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #9

    Hello Aperture,

    This is a issue with your shortcut arrow overlay icon. Try the program in METHOD TWO of the tutorial below to see if it may be able to restore the default shortcut arrow for you.

    Shortcut Arrow - Change, Remove, or Restore

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  10. Posts : 94
    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Thread Starter
       #10

    AHA!!!! That's what it was.
    Just a few days ago I had downloaded and installed the Remove Shortcuts from Method 1.
    Then yesterday when I installed iTunes I was rebooting the computer for the first time in a while so I incorrectly blamed iTunes when in fact it was Method 1 in this link:
    Shortcut Arrow - Change, Remove, or Restore
    that for some reason left the icons the way they were.
    Now I just downloaded it again and clicked the "Restore Arrow" and after a reboot there it was.
    By the way in Method 2 i got an error message before "Log Off" that's why I tried No 1.

    Thanks A LOT to all of you for your help

    A
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