Application icons not working anymore

**X-Pranav** · 02-04-2009

Hello,

I come to you to ask you for help, ie I have a XP home on my laptop, unfortunately, all my icons do not work, I thought the flow is from any virus but by scan this not the virus.

To open any documents I have to left click on the icon then click Open. This is my reason I need your help to enable me to resolve this anomaly.
I hope I will find the solution that I can not format my disk.

**Jackie** · 02-04-2009

If you have this problem for some time, trying to system restore to a date prior to this problem,

Otherwise, or if it does not, try repairing install your system.

**Hasib** · 02-04-2009

It will be necessary to try to fix the "exes" not running and then you will have to visit the HijackThis Log Help forum to get your machine cleaned up.

Go here
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Click "EXE File Association Fix" (Restore default association for EXE files) .

**wingeek** · 02-04-2009

Try deleting C:\Windows\ShellIconCache

Windows will recreate it when you reboot. or I suggest you to use a third party software to fix the problem. I am using Tuneup Utilities 2004. It has a nice feature called Tuneup Winstyler.