dbminter Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 My icons for shortcuts to web pages in Windows Explorer has disappeared. Web page shortcuts on the Desktop have the proper icon, but not in folders in Windows Explorer. They display the default "no icon" icon. Refresh TRIES to get them to appear as they show up briefly, but, then immediately return to the no icon icon. I've tried changing the icons for individual shortcuts, but, they don't change. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Delete %userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 I tried that, but, I don't think I rebooted afterwards. Let me try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Didn't work. Worked temporarily. Then, it immediately reset itself back to the no icon icon. This is not just on webpages, but also the folder icon for folders shortcuts stopped working, replaced by the no icon icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Had to restore all the way back to Friday to get it working again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted October 13, 2011 Author Share Posted October 13, 2011 Happened again! Had to restore a daily backup from yesterday to fix it! Am going to add a shortcut for a daily Scheduled Task job for me to check this every day after the backup runs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 I discovered what was causing this. It was uninstalling a past version of Windows 7 Manager from Add/Remove Programs. For whatever reason, it's an installer that every time a new installer is run for new updates, it adds the same Add/Remove entry each time, resulting in multiple entries. Some older versions, though, need to be manually uninstalled before installing new updates to Windows 7 Manager, so, it's a catch 22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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