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(Solved)Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour &Symbol
« on: November 30, 2014, 05:34:38 am »
Hi,
                     I am having a strange problem. The startup program exe works, but the some program icons are showing as blank file type. This is only for the programs. Mozilla firefox is one of the program, which shows correctly but the recent files accessed shows all as unknown file type. what has happened? How to correct. Please see the Malware bytes icon
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Re: Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour and show as "unknown file
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2014, 01:37:40 pm »
Do you have your system set to show the file extensions for files? If so did you make sure the files still have their extentions in the file name?

Example: if I have windows set to show file extensions and I have a file called readme.txt and I rename it and remove the .txt from the file name then windows wont know what type of file it is.

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Re: Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour and show as "unknown file
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2014, 08:31:35 pm »
Hi, Shane
                   It is not file type mistake. It is icon cache corruption. Glad that i did the rebuild cache instructions from Sevenforum. The solution is manual and it is given in this link. It restores the icons in cache folder by replacing corrupted icons.
    taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
    DEL "%localappdata%\IconCache.db" /A
    shutdown /r /f /t 00
The Link is
 http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html
                 It is a good tip. Thanks Shane Problem appear to be solved
UPdate: i add solved to the existing title and slightly changed the title to a meaning ful topic, but all the subsequent post have the same title as before.
                       Shane, I want your say on this last paragraph
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Re: (Solved)Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour &Symbol
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2014, 01:28:22 am »
Shane,
                 Would you say something on the last para of my last post in this thread
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Re: (Solved)Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour &Symbol
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2014, 07:36:19 pm »
Sorry, which part do you need an answer for?

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Re: (Solved)Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour &Symbol
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2014, 09:44:58 pm »
hi, shane,
 The answer to this part
           It is a good tip. Thanks Shane Problem appear to be solved
UPdate: i add solved to the existing title and slightly changed the title to a meaning ful topic, but all the subsequent post have the same title as before.
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Re: (Solved)Not all but some startup program icon lost its colour &Symbol
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2014, 01:48:39 pm »
Thats the way the forum does it, you can actually change it on every post, BUT it is the first post that shows up in the forum section so that is the only one that matters to change.

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