All icons in my computer and Start Menu have disappeared

[nishadsinghi]

hello...
some days ago i installed the ms office 13 consumer preview. for some time, it worked well but after 2-3 days... all the icons in windows had changed to one. I uninstalled office but it still didn't work. i searched in the forum and followed this tutorial - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

now all the icons in my computer have disappeared and the start menu is also not working.

 

[Brink]

Hello Nishadsinghi, and welcome to Seven Forums.

If these are all shortcuts that are missing their icons, then you might see if downloading and merging the .reg file for the listed lnk (LNK) option in the tutorial below may be able to help restore them. It will restore the default associations for LNK files (shortcuts).

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[nishadsinghi]

hey brink....
thank you for replying. But these aren't shortcuts. all the icons have dissappeared. COMPLETELY !!
even the start menu isn't working. please help

 

[Jacee]

Just as an off chance they may be hidden, download and run UnHide: http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/unhide.exe

 

[Arc]

Run http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html now. It will revert your system files back to windows default, and will get it rid of the Mac customization.

Let us know if the icons back now or not.

 

[Brink]

hey brink....
thank you for replying. But these aren't shortcuts. all the icons have dissappeared. COMPLETELY !!
even the start menu isn't working. please help

If the other posts above do not help, then you could also try doing a system restore using a restore point (if available) dated before this happened to hopefully undo and fix this.

 

[nishadsinghi]

as the start menu is not working.... please tell me some other way of opening command prompt window.....i had thought of doing it but was unable....

 

[Arc]

Try it : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/139810-sfc-scannow-run-command-prompt-boot.html

But as your start menu is also not working, I would suggest you to perform a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html .

 

[nishadsinghi]

hey jacee this link isn't working... google chrome crashes everytime

 

[nishadsinghi]

okay... ihave used this unhide but nothing has happened. :/

 

[Arc]

Can you do it ? SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot

 

[erelchris]

have the same problem..


i think i have installed style builder for xp..(i want to create theme for xp)
found out that its not working under windows 7 because it actually changes the theme live


then i uninstalled it, and some of icons changed
so i rebuilded iconcache, and now have the same problem in the first post..



startmenu not working, all icons are missing literally (not even blank)