Icons don't update/show for shortcuts that were invalid at startup

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I use Veracrypt to have an encrypted virtual drive, and have pinned shortcuts to portable apps on that drive. Thus, when I first boot up, the shortcuts are invalid, and the icons are just defaults. When I mount the drive, the icons never update to what they should be, even if I right-click the shortcut, go to Properties, and try changing the icon and changing it back, etc.

It used to work in previous versions (the icons would update automatically). I usually only Hibernate, rarely reboot, so if the icons would just update once in a while I'd be golden.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top


I use Veracrypt to have an encrypted virtual drive, and have pinned shortcuts to portable apps on that drive. Thus, when I first boot up, the shortcuts are invalid, and the icons are just defaults. When I mount the drive, the icons never update to what they should be, even if I right-click the shortcut, go to Properties, and try changing the icon and changing it back, etc.

It used to work in previous versions (the icons would update automatically). I usually only Hibernate, rarely reboot, so if the icons would just update once in a while I'd be golden. 
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If you restart Windows Explorer, do they then render?

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting gnznroses, reply 4

I killed explorer with Task Manager and started it back -- icons display fine now

 
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Excellent.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

There's been a couple things in the release notes since this, pertaining to icon cache etc, but my icons still go back to blank after a reboot.

 

(They show correctly in Explorer)