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      09-13-2011
Suddenly whenever I try set up a shortcut icon, rather than using the
icon associated with the file as shown in Win Explorer, I wind up with
some generic icon. This icon looks like blank piece of white paper with
an upper right corner fold; superimposed on it is what might be a screen
display or perhaps a spreadsheet, with six dots of different colors. A
miniature of this also is overlaid on the lower right corner of some
properly displayed icons. What has caused this and how can I get things
working properly? Any ideas? I'm running Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit.
Allen
 
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      09-13-2011
On 9/13/2011 2:15 PM, Allen wrote:
> Suddenly whenever I try set up a shortcut icon, rather than using the
> icon associated with the file as shown in Win Explorer, I wind up with
> some generic icon. This icon looks like blank piece of white paper with
> an upper right corner fold; superimposed on it is what might be a screen
> display or perhaps a spreadsheet, with six dots of different colors. A
> miniature of this also is overlaid on the lower right corner of some
> properly displayed icons. What has caused this and how can I get things
> working properly? Any ideas? I'm running Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit.
> Allen


Stranger still-- this condition had been going on for two or three days.
As soon as I had posted my question I noticed that the Thunderbird icon,
though displayed improperly on the screen, was correct in the taskbar. I
clicked on a couple more of the bad icons with the same result. Then
_all the bad ones were replaced with correct ones_! So the problem is
gone but why it it exist in the first place and then practice some
self-healing? Incidentally, I had run most of the programs and the
problem had remained.

So I withdraw my plea for help.

Allen
 
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      09-13-2011
On 13/09/2011 20:28, Allen wrote:
> On 9/13/2011 2:15 PM, Allen wrote:
>> Suddenly whenever I try set up a shortcut icon, rather than using the
>> icon associated with the file as shown in Win Explorer, I wind up with
>> some generic icon. This icon looks like blank piece of white paper with
>> an upper right corner fold; superimposed on it is what might be a screen
>> display or perhaps a spreadsheet, with six dots of different colors. A
>> miniature of this also is overlaid on the lower right corner of some
>> properly displayed icons. What has caused this and how can I get things
>> working properly? Any ideas? I'm running Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit.
>> Allen

>
> Stranger still-- this condition had been going on for two or three days.
> As soon as I had posted my question I noticed that the Thunderbird icon,
> though displayed improperly on the screen, was correct in the taskbar. I
> clicked on a couple more of the bad icons with the same result. Then
> _all the bad ones were replaced with correct ones_! So the problem is
> gone but why it it exist in the first place and then practice some
> self-healing? Incidentally, I had run most of the programs and the
> problem had remained.
>
> So I withdraw my plea for help.
>
> Allen


You can see all the Win7 icons in C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll by
right clicking on desktop, Personalize, Change desktop icons, Change
icon button.
Is it in there?
If not, then where did it come from?

Ed


 
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      09-20-2011
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:15:09 -0500, Allen <> wrote:

>Suddenly whenever I try set up a shortcut icon, rather than using the
>icon associated with the file as shown in Win Explorer, I wind up with
>some generic icon. This icon looks like blank piece of white paper with
>an upper right corner fold; superimposed on it is what might be a screen
>display or perhaps a spreadsheet, with six dots of different colors. A
>miniature of this also is overlaid on the lower right corner of some
>properly displayed icons. What has caused this and how can I get things
>working properly? Any ideas? I'm running Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit.
>Allen


How To Rebuild Icon Cache In Windows 7 To Repair Icons
<http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-rebuild-icon-cache-in-windows-7-to-repair-icons/>

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