Broken Icons

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This is bugging the crap out of me. Ever since I played around with this program on Windows 7 64 bit (a mistake in hindsight) this program has hijacked my icons and I cannot get rid of this. I've tried switching themes, restoring default, but these icons always stay the same. Its ruined my desktop icons and My Computer icons too.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

i don't think IconPackager works well on win7 yet. since you posted in the MyColors forum, i'm assuming you are running MC on win7. i don't think MC is built for win7 yet, either.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ever since I played around with this program on Windows 7 64 bit (a mistake in hindsight)
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Yes, you made a mistake since Windows 7 is not supported.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 Here is a fix for Vista, I don't know if it will help for Windows7 but it may be worth checking out.

From SD support:

Please access your System Registry (XP - Start-> Run, Vista - WinKey +R) and in the run box type regedit. Then go to the following Key;

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shellex\IconHandler

On the right side of the screen, if it has a value of {611AD258-4138-4348-A534-9856FA6BA398} you need to rename that registry key from 'IconHandler' to something else, IconHandlerX works.
Then reboot your PC and the Icons should come back.

You may also want to look at more posts on icon repair here:  LINK

 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Boot into safe mode and run a command prompt from admin. login ...

Then type in sfc /scannow and let it check to see what files are changed. If they have been changed it will attempt to repair them. Sometimes and most usually all the time a restart is needed to complete the clean up.

Good luck

 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I had a similar problem with windows XP, and I solved it by using the freeware program enditall (just google it).  I used the program to stop everything nonessential before I applied the theme and the iconmanager no longer had any issues.  I don't know if there is a version of enditall for windows 7 yet, but if you can find it, or 1 like it, it may help.