How to Restore Application Icons in Windows XP? Please Help!
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Help! My application icons (exe files, shortcuts)
no longer show what they are supposed to. They all
display the Windows Default Icon (unless I change
it with IconPackager, after which the default icon
for that package will be shown instead). Even the
applications themselves show those default icons.
For shortcuts to applications the "Properties->Change
Icon" will let you choose the icon, but when you click
on "apply", it won't change. If you let it point to an
external .ico file, however, that icon will be displayed.
Shortcuts to non-apps still display correctly.
My idea is that some registry key has been changed.
What do you think? No need to tell me to empty the icon
cache, that didn't work, neither did anything that's
obvious.
no longer show what they are supposed to. They all
display the Windows Default Icon (unless I change
it with IconPackager, after which the default icon
for that package will be shown instead). Even the
applications themselves show those default icons.
For shortcuts to applications the "Properties->Change
Icon" will let you choose the icon, but when you click
on "apply", it won't change. If you let it point to an
external .ico file, however, that icon will be displayed.
Shortcuts to non-apps still display correctly.
My idea is that some registry key has been changed.
What do you think? No need to tell me to empty the icon
cache, that didn't work, neither did anything that's
obvious.
