Icon issue! A little help please.

[Lance1]

This has been bugging me for awhile. A number of application icons are not displaying. ["Not Shortcut Icons"] I tried Brink's Icon Cache - Rebuild Suggestions with no success. I tried setting file association, also a no go. Here's a screenshot of two applications with this issue but its all over. Any suggestions?

 

[torchwood]

Its because there not shortcuts.
There is no easy or Microsoft supported way of changing the icon associated with an exe file because the icon is embedded into the executable.

Roy

 

[Lance1]

What about a repair install Roy? Overkill!

 

[bigmck]

You can give a Repair Install a try. If there is nothing to repair, it won't hurt anything.

 

[Lance1]

Thanks bigmck I've tries everything ells so your right. What can it hurt.

 

[Callender]

Hold off on the reinstall. Unfortunately I don't use MS Office Suite. Anyway try this:

Get: FileTypesMan - Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows

Run it and check out those problematic file extensions. One of the columns shows the path to the icon.

IconViewer mentioned in this thread:

Icon Viewer

shows the icons packed inside executables so check the executable that launches - say WORD - and see if the icon appears in the list. If it does then modify the icon path in FileTypesMan.

 

[Lance1]

Thanks Callender! I'll check that out right now.

 

[Callender]

If the icon(s) shows up okay in the executable(s) try correcting paths.

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Sorry but I don't have a better MS Office Suite related example.

Also it's possible to check icon paths in the registry.

 

[bigmck]

Give this a try. == Click on the Start Button and click on All Programs. Find the MS Office folder and click on it. Do you have icons in it?

 

[Lance1]

Give this a try. == Click on the Start Button and click on All Programs. Find the MS Office folder and click on it. Do you have icons in it?

No I don't.

 

[Lance1]

If the icon(s) shows up okay in the executable(s) try correcting paths.

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Sorry but I don't have a better MS Office Suite related example.

Also it's possible to check icon paths in the registry.

Still nothing Callender.

 

[Callender]

You don't need to click an entry to display properties.

Scroll across to the icon path column and post what it shows.

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[Callender]

From your screenshot it looks like all icons are blank!

 

[Callender]

Let's start with a file that we have in common - vlc.exe

Open registry here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VLC.flv\DefaultIcon

What does it show?

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It should show the path to the icon embedded in the executable:

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[Lance1]

Let's start with a file that we have in common - vlc.exe

Open registry here:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VLC.flv\DefaultIcon

What does it show?

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It should show the path to the icon embedded in the executable:

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Here you go Callender. It appears that there is no default icon.

 

[Callender]

Okay so in FileTypesMan try changing deafault icon path for .flv to:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe",0

Or just use the "browse" button and choose the executable. See if it works. You might need to refresh desktop.

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[Callender]

More to try:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Default Programs\Set Associations

Set .doc to open with some other application and apply. Then re-associate it with word and apply.

Regarding rebuild icon cache script. Did you wait for the message prompting you to reboot when you ran the script? It can take a while to appear so it's easy to close the command window before you see the prompt.

Also do you have any registry backups that were created by any third party software recently. Search your HD for .reg files.

In SwiftSearch *backup*?.reg returns results for file names containing the word backup with the .reg extension. I'm not sure if the same works in Windows Search as I don't use it and it's disabled.

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If you have such a backup try imaging your current drive then restore the backup.

 

[Callender]

I think that tutorial is just for default icons rather then program icons.

 

[Lance1]

Thank you for all the suggestions but me being me I got frustrated, backed up what I needed and stuck in a ghost image from a few months back. All is back and good. Sorry for wasting your time.

 

[bigmck]

No, You did not waste our time. Glad you got things going.