Spywareblaster's icon is generic in taskbar?

[flycaster]

I am a SpywareBlaster user and something strange is now happening when I pin it to my taskbar. In all the years i have been using this app, its icon always has shown properly when pinned to the taskbar, but now when pinning, the icon is a generic icon??? I guess i can live with it, but i would much rather have the app's original icon. How can I get it back?

 

[Jacee]

I'm curious as to why you need it pinned to the taskbar? It runs silently in the background.

 

[Fayla]

Maybe clear the icon cache? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

I am a SpywareBlaster user and something strange is now happening when I pin it to my taskbar. In all the years i have been using this app, its icon always has shown properly when pinned to the taskbar, but now when pinning, the icon is a generic icon??? I guess i can live with it, but i would much rather have the app's original icon. How can I get it back?

 

[flycaster]

I'm curious as to why you need it pinned to the taskbar? It runs silently in the background.

I don't have the automated update version, so I have to manually update...

 

[Jacee]

So do I ... I have all my security programs in a single folder.

 

[flycaster]

Maybe clear the icon cache? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

I am a SpywareBlaster user and something strange is now happening when I pin it to my taskbar. In all the years i have been using this app, its icon always has shown properly when pinned to the taskbar, but now when pinning, the icon is a generic icon??? I guess i can live with it, but i would much rather have the app's original icon. How can I get it back?

DL'd the icon cashe app and it worked like a charm. Thanks.

EDIT: Update. Worked on my Gateway, but not the HP laptop. Both are running W7 HP 64-bit. When I ran the program on the laptop and the DOS screen came up and I tapped any key (Space), the DOS screen immediately disappeared, the desktop appeared and I couldn't get the taskbar to show, and I had to manually shutdown and restart without any changes in the icons. On the Gateway I got a process going and then was asked to click Y or N...completely different that what happened on the HP laptop??? BTW, I tried to manually do the cashe, and when I put in the first line, got an error message that couldn't find "explorer.exe/F"???

 

[A Guy]

Try this:

Right click on the Spyware Blaster icon in taskbar> Right click on Spyware Blaster in list that appears



And choose properties



On shortcut tab, click on Change Icon> Browse to the folder where Spyware blaster is installed (usually C:\program files (x86)\SpywareBlaster, or C:\program files\SpywareBlaster for 32 bit) and choose the spywareblaster.exe



OK your way out and see if the icon isn't correct now.

A Guy

 

[flycaster]

Did all that you suggested, several times. The appropriate icon was in the properties/shortcut screens; however, although I chose it again, did Apply and OK as I backed out, nothing happened to change from generic to proper icon. In fact, I had another generic icon in my taskbar (Cookiemonster) that also failed respond to this effort.

Although I really don't know much about these things, it does seem strange that I should be able to pin the proper icon to the taskbar in one computer but not the other even though they are both running the same OS.

 

[Bill2]

Unpin the generic icon, then pin again.

 

[flycaster]

Problems solved before I saw your post, Bill2, but not quite sure what I did. I think that the problem with the properties method I first used was that I had left the generic icon in the taskbar while doing the fix. The properties fix did work when I worked on the proper icon while it was on the desktop and there was no icon in the taskbar...I think.

 

[A Guy]

Glad you got it sorted. I should have added to unpin the one you had, and pin a new one after changing the icon. Good add Bill. Good you got it fixed in any case

A Guy