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No Icons No Start Menu Win7 upgrade
Okay, I'm going to stay calm (HA!) and plead for help! I upgraded from XP to Win7 one week ago. I used PC Mover to do the upgrade since MS didn't offer a direct upgrade from XP. I had a few compatibility problems but managed to fix all but my HP Officejet 7310xi. Then, while trying to fix my printer problem and having to reboot my system many, many times I suddenly lost ALL icons except the ones in the lower right of the task bar (Quick start?) and my START icon doesn't work. It won't open at all. I can right click and use the context menus, I have a desktop background, all my shortcuts titles (the text) are there but not a single icon. This is also true for all of my folders including My Computer and Control Panel. Here is what I have tried so far:
- Made sure my profile is set as Admin. before making changes.
- Updated my graphics card driver.
- right clicked desktop and made sure the 'show icons' is clicked
- Made sure windows explorer was running.
- emptied all temp folders/caches and rebooted
- created another user profile and tried logging on with that to see if it is user related. I couldn't even log on as that user.
- went to c:/users/myname/AppData/local/IconCache. I thought this was going to solve the problem because I didn't have a folder named IconCache or Icon or anything close to that. I checked the other profile and it DID so I copied and pasted it into mine. Rebooted - no luck.
- tried restoring computer to previous date - no luck.
This just started yesterday for some reason - all the icons and start menu were fine until then. I can open my programs from the shortcuts on the desktop if I click on the text area -in the area where the icon would normally be, it is blank but is spaced out as though there was an icon there. (I hope that makes sense). Much more frustrating than missing icons is that the START menu won't open! I press the Start button (icon) and nothing - I tried using the windows key on my keyboard - nothing.
Here are my system basics:
Dell XPS 410
Intel Pentium 2.80 GHz, 32-bit OS
Dual Core RAID 500 GB each
RAM 2.00 GB
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8400GS Graphics Card
Windows 7 Professional OS
If you need any more info than that PLEASE let me know. I welcome any help or suggestions!!!
Thank you!