Broken icon images after a repair of my Windows installation

Hi all,

OK, I had an issue with my Vista installation after the latest batch of
updates this week that resulted in my winload.exe file being corrupted. I had
to repair my installation which I was able to do after a little bit of
trouble and Windows now works again.

But the repair of my Windows installation has had an unforeseen side effect.
A lot of my desktop and Startup menu recently/most used programs icon images
are now broken. They will only display the default icon image.

I have opened up the Properties for these programs and the icon image link
to the file is correct, it just won't display the icon for love or money.
Funnily enough, the icon image is displayed correctly if I open up the
program folder for each of the damaged images in the Startup menu, it's just
the list of most-used programs when you initially open up the Start menu that
is damaged.

I have tried deleting these shortcuts and then creating new ones in the hope
that this will get around the issue but that didn't work.

So can anyone tell me how I can fix these icon image file associations so
that they display correctly please?

Many thanks.

Shaun;613742 Wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> OK, I had an issue with my Vista installation after the latest batch of
> updates this week that resulted in my winload.exe file being corrupted.
> I had
> to repair my installation which I was able to do after a little bit of
> trouble and Windows now works again.
>
> But the repair of my Windows installation has had an unforeseen side
> effect.
> A lot of my desktop and Startup menu recently/most used programs icon
> images
> are now broken. They will only display the default icon image.
>
> I have opened up the Properties for these programs and the icon image
> link
> to the file is correct, it just won't display the icon for love or
> money.
> Funnily enough, the icon image is displayed correctly if I open up the
> program folder for each of the damaged images in the Startup menu, it's
> just
> the list of most-used programs when you initially open up the Start
> menu that
> is damaged.
>
> I have tried deleting these shortcuts and then creating new ones in the
> hope
> that this will get around the issue but that didn't work.
>
> So can anyone tell me how I can fix these icon image file associations
> so
> that they display correctly please?
>
> Many thanks.

Hi Shaun,

If you already did OPTION ONE step 3 to reset it in this tutorial:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72...tems-list.html


You can try to see if rebuilding the icon cache will help.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...e-rebuild.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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Many thanks for taking the time to reply to my question but it turned out to
be unnecessary in the end.

It managed to sort itself out as, a day or so later, all the broken icon
images were back as they should be. Don't know why, just as I don't know why
they broke in the first place but all's well that ends well.

And, once again, thanks for taking the time to give me some advice and help,
I appreciated it.

Shaun

Shaun,

The best solutions are always the ones that fix themselves. LOL
Glad to hear that everything is ok now.

Shawn


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