Icons & Thumbnails don't appear in windows explorer or taskbar anymore

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Icons & Thumbnails don't appear in windows explorer or taskbar anymore

I'm never the one to ask, but I don't know what happened. I tried looking online but I couldn't find any solutions. It seems like all my icons (including folders) are not showing up in windows explorer, taskbar, or the desktop anymore. This isn't too big a problem, but navigating through my picture library is very complicated without thumbnails.

• My PC is pretty heavily customized.
• I also cannot open the start menu from the taskbar anymore. I click the startorb and nothing appears.

Screenshots

Also, while I was uploaded the three screenshots to imgur, the icons showed up on the popup to windows explorer.

 

[koolkat77]

start off with a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html and restart when finished.

 

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start off with a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html and restart when finished.

Yup, already did that. All that I could see that changed was that the start orb had reverted back to its default look. I still cannot see any icons.

 

[koolkat77]

have you tried this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

 

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have you tried this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

Just tried it, it didn't work

 

[Arc]

• My PC is pretty heavily customized.

I hope in this customization there is an iconpack ... that you installed by running an installer script .... and the iconpack disables folder thumbnail preview ? You have changed your icons a few times, too ?

If so, you go for a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html . There is on other easy fix for your issue.

 

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• My PC is pretty heavily customized.

I hope in this customization there is an iconpack ... that you installed by running an installer script .... and the iconpack disables folder thumbnail preview ? You have changed your icons a few times, too ?

If so, you go for a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html . There is on other easy fix for your issue.

I had only used the icon pack on my rocketdock. Thanks for helping though.

 

[Arc]

I had only used the icon pack on my rocketdock. Thanks for helping though.

Are you sure you have not applied any third party icon pack in your computer, other than in rocketdock ?

In this case ... disable thumbnail preview using the tutorial http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11738-thumbnail-previews-enable-disable.html , and see if the folder icons .... and the generic filetypes for other icons load .