Desktop icons become unrecognized

[ranteo]

Hi

I started up my com today and found my desktop icons, as well as taskbar shortcut icons, become unknown icons. Unlike the programme icons that they were, like the S for Skype etc it became an unknown program icon.

Does anybody know how I can fix this?

I've tried restarting my com, but to no avail.

Many thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Ran

 

[richc46]

There are many technical people at this forum, who can give you the technical reason for what happened as well as a technical solution. I, prefer to try the easy way first. Using system restore, restore to a time prior to the problem. Everything should be back to normal. I would then make a system image, put it in a safe place and save it for furutre problems.

 

[TGSoldier]

Increase the size of your icons. Does that change anything?

Also, try deleting your shelliconcache file and reboot.

 

[ranteo]

I tried increasing the size of the icons, no effect.
Also tried deleting the shelliconcache file and rebooted but no effect.

I did system restore to a month ago and it worked perfectly well. Thanks loads!

 

[ranteo]

I just realized that the icons become unrecognizable after I install photoshop cs4. Does anybody else have the same situation or is it just me?

 

[MacGyvr]

I have Photoshop CS4 installed and have no problems...

 

[MuTako]

The same problem!

Hello,
I have the same problem...
I'm with Windows 7 PRO and have no backup files, so...
Here are 2 screenshots. The first one is before changes, and the second one I've made after changing the icon's size. After that I rolled back the size, but they were still like in the second Screenshot.