Solved Trying to Change back my windows 7 Icons back to default

[Rawad]

I don't think its worth a system restore, their has got to be away to fix it.

 

[fimble]

Have you uninstalled IconPackager? Personally don't like it as it does weird things when trying to re-set, as I can see from your screenshot.

If not, uninstall, I think it gives an option to Restore Defaults, its been a couple of years and I'm not risking an install to find out!!

Delete your iconcache.db and clear your thumbcaches using Disk Cleanup.

 

[ie9]

I don't think its worth a system restore, their has got to be away to fix it.

I'm at a loss. Let me call in the big dogs...

 

[A Guy]

Have a look here, it has worked before. Also scroll near the bottom for a fix that involves a registry key. The key at the bottom fixed it for the last poster I pointed to this post:

IconPackager messed windows 7 icons? Get fix here » Forum Post by v00d00m4n

A Guy

 

[Rawad]

this is what happened when I tried to add the reg file.


http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7959/64137294.png

 

[ie9]

this is what happened when I tried to add the reg file.


http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7959/64137294.png

Instead of naming it .reg try naming it change.reg

 

[Rawad]

nope didn't work man.

 

[A Guy]

Did you see Reply #13 on that link? A Guy

 

[ie9]

Ok, let's see. I saw this on the link provided by A Guy. Not sure if it'll work, but it might be worth a try.

As it's still messing with the registry it is a good idea to make a back-up and restore point.

You could get into the registry editor and navigate to

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Shell Icons

and then delete that entry. Log off and then log back on and see if that fixes it. Good luck!


Edit: What A Guy said above (at the same time I wrote this), but in more words, lol

 

[Rawad]

I bumped into a problem I can find the file I want to delete lol

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8311/71824861.png

 

[A Guy]

I bumped into a problem I can find the file I want to delete lol

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8311/71824861.png

You are in the wrong place, see the bottom address in my pic HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE



A Guy

 

[Rawad]

Ok I did that now to make sure do I delete the shell icons folder?

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/8759/72229015.png

 

[A Guy]

According to the link, yes. have you made a backup of your registry?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/4230-registry-backup-restore.html

A Guy

 

[Rawad]

I made a restore point. That is all I did.

 

[Rawad]

Alright Guys I was browsing through the forum and found a thread , It was able to solve my problem , thank you guys for all the support and help.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3606-shortcut-arrow-change-remove-restore.html?filter[2]=Appearance%20Personalize

 

[A Guy]

Hmmm, ok...guess I didn't understand your problem after all. Glad you got it sorted. A Guy