Missing Application Icons

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I have a user that has some applications that are missing their icons
(Office 2007, Adobe, to name a couple). The applications still work when
clicked. I did some searching and removed the iconcache.db file(s). I
tried TweakUI - Repair. I tried changing the color depth. I tried logging
on as a different user.

When I went to the properties of some of the apps, the change icon button
was greyed out. On one that was not, Adobe IIRC, the path pointed to the
windows\installer folder. It was bascially a file not found error. I went
to that folder is was almost empty. The user claims they did not delete the
files.

So I think the problem is that the apps are trying to get thier icon
graphics from files that no longer exist on the hard drive. Of course this
machine had the system restore feature turned off! :)

Is there a way to fix this? I can reinstall the programs if need be, and
can try to do the change icon, but I don't seem to have that option for the
Office 2007 programs (although Outlook is displaying properly, just not the
other apps)

There are about 20 apps displaying this (or not displaying I guess!)
problem.

Any advice is greatly appreciate!

TIA
 
You'll have to change the path for each bad icon. Use
'Folder Options-->File Types', find the icon and browse
to the programs installation folder and find a proper
icon there. Look inside exe's and dll's.


ju.c
 
I have a user that has some applications that are missing their icons
(Office 2007, Adobe, to name a couple).  The applications still work when
clicked.  I did some searching and removed the iconcache.db file(s).  I
tried TweakUI - Repair. I tried changing the color depth.  I tried logging
on as a different user.

When I went to the properties of some of the apps, the change icon button
was greyed out.  On one that was not, Adobe IIRC, the path pointed to the
windows\installer folder.  It was bascially a file not found error.  I went
to that folder is was almost empty.  The user claims they did not delete the
files.

So I think the problem is that the apps are trying to get thier icon
graphics from files that no longer exist on the hard drive.  Of course this
machine had the system restore feature turned off!  :)

Is there a way to fix this?  I can reinstall the programs if need be, and
can try to do the change icon, but I don't seem to have that option for the
Office 2007 programs (although Outlook is displaying properly, just not the
other apps)

There are about 20 apps displaying this (or not displaying I guess!)
problem.

Any advice is greatly appreciate!
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I think some icons are stored in various files (like .ICO or .ICL) and
some are stored in the executable itself - harder to change than just
a path to some file.

Where are you getting this access to an application that has no icon?
Start Menu, Desktop, some folder? Is there any icon displayed or just
the wrong icon and you can't change it? Where do you think you should
be seeing an icon and you're not?

On my XP SP3, Office 2003 system I used Internet Explorer to look in:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs
\Microsoft Office:

and see all my installed Office applications - Microsoft Office
Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office Word 2003... as shortcuts and each
shortcut has the proper icon displayed behind the little shortcut
arrow indicator.

If I right click one of the shortcuts and choose Properties, Shortcut,
I still see the correct icon displayed in the top left of the box with
the shortcut arrow, but the change button is not available. I think
this is the way it is supposed to be for these applications.

My Adobe Reader is the same but in the C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users.WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs folder.

Do you see the proper icons in your folder of Office programs if you
just navigate to it?

Just where does Outlook display properly? If Outlook displays
properly, does it look right in the Office installation folder and in
the Properties, Shortcut tab?

What do you see in the folder and Shortcut tab for the applications
that do not display their icons properly?
 
Thanks! This has been helping. PDF files don't seem to work, but I can
live with that! :)
 
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