Trying to Change back my windows 7 Icons back to default

raiden92 said:

I don't think its worth a system restore, their has got to be away to fix it.

I'm at a loss. Let me call in the big dogs...

Have a look here, it has worked before. Also scroll near the bottom for a fix that involves a registry key. The key at the bottom fixed it for the last poster I pointed to this post:

IconPackager messed windows 7 icons? Get fix here » Forum Post by v00d00m4n

A Guy

raiden92 said:

this is what happened when I tried to add the reg file.


http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7959/64137294.png

Instead of naming it .reg try naming it change.reg

Did you see Reply #13 on that link? A Guy

Ok, let's see. I saw this on the link provided by A Guy. Not sure if it'll work, but it might be worth a try.

As it's still messing with the registry it is a good idea to make a back-up and restore point.

You could get into the registry editor and navigate to

Code:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Shell Icons

and then delete that entry. Log off and then log back on and see if that fixes it. Good luck!


Edit: What A Guy said above (at the same time I wrote this), but in more words, lol