Rebooted the computer and all my desktop icons turned white

[adamdo]

I rebooted the computer and when I got my desktop back all the cons for third party apps are the default white icon as you can see in my screenshot.

I have tried re-building the icon cache by following the instructions on the forum Icon Cache - Rebuild

I can rebuild from a 3 day old image backup but I don't want to have to do that! Anyone got any more tips for trying to work it out - I tried to change one or two manually using the properties/change icon but that did not stay changed for some reason.

 

[krustykobb]

you could try doing a system restore to a previous point where your icons were working; this is my only suggestion other than to try re-building the icon cache again

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well for my 2 cents worth Adam I would be first doing these


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html < use the /f and /r switch option in Option 2 ifnecessary
then these

http://www.superantispyware.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

download from bleeping computer – delete any rubbishthese find.