Desktop icons driving me nuts

[quartzster]

Somehow ALL the icons for desktop shortcuts to installed programs look like the attached. I am trying to find out how to get rid of the overlay on top of the icon.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Lemur]

This may help you...

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

 

[quartzster]

Lemur,

thanks a lot...much appreciated...rebuilding the icon cache didn't help but restoring the default win7 file extension for shortcut .lnk did.

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

 

[Zlazz]

In regard to corrupted desktop icons I put this solution elsewhere but since the problem has turned up again I suppose it won't hurt to repeat it so hope it is of help.

If the shortcut arrow is not properly displayed then a generic image can appear over the Desktop icon making it almost unrecognisable. I found that alterations through 'View' and icon-size did not help nor did System Restore or deleting the icon-cache. However the fault could be overcome quite easily as follows:

• Go through Control Panel to Display
• Reset the size option to "Medium - 125%" and click "Apply"
• Once the computer resets, visually confirm that the shortcut arrow appears correctly
• Then go back through the Control Panel again and reset to "Smaller - 100%"

This also works for icons on the Menu.

 

[quartzster]

Thanks...