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Song of Myself By 1819-1892 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy.

2 Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it. The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless, It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it, I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, I am mad for it to be in contact with me.

Hi, It seems that the file association has been corrupted, I would like to suggest you perform the following steps to reset it. Change the file association 1. Click the Start Button and click Default Programs. Click 'Associate a file type or protocol with program.' Click the XXX file extension and verify whether it is correctly set to open with the program which you want to use. If the configuration is not set correctly, please highlight this XXX file extension and click the Change program button.

Check whether the program is listed in the Recommended Program or Other Programs. If so, please choose the program and click OK. If not, please click the Browse button to locate the correct program.

What’s the result? If the issue persists, would you please upload the following information to and provide us the link for analyzing? You may check for more information. Screenshot of the symptom 1.

Press the Print Screen key (PrtScn) on your keyboard. Click the 'Start' menu, type 'mspaint' in the Search Bar and Press Enter.

In the Paint program, click the 'Edit' menu, click 'Paste', click the 'File' menu, and click 'Save'. The 'Save As' dialogue box will appear. Type a file name in the 'File name:' box, for example: 'screenshot'.

Make sure 'JPEG (.JPG;.JPEG;.JPE;.JFIF)' is selected in the 'Save as type' box, click “Desktop” on the left pane and then click 'Save'. Please send this saved JPEG file to us. Hi, It seems that the file association has been corrupted, I would like to suggest you perform the following steps to reset it. Change the file association 1. Click the Start Button and click Default Programs. Click 'Associate a file type or protocol with program.'

Click the XXX file extension and verify whether it is correctly set to open with the program which you want to use. If the configuration is not set correctly, please highlight this XXX file extension and click the Change program button. Check whether the program is listed in the Recommended Program or Other Programs. If so, please choose the program and click OK. If not, please click the Browse button to locate the correct program.

What’s the result? If the issue persists, would you please upload the following information to and provide us the link for analyzing? You may check for more information. Screenshot of the symptom 1. Press the Print Screen key (PrtScn) on your keyboard. Click the 'Start' menu, type 'mspaint' in the Search Bar and Press Enter.

In the Paint program, click the 'Edit' menu, click 'Paste', click the 'File' menu, and click 'Save'. The 'Save As' dialogue box will appear. Type a file name in the 'File name:' box, for example: 'screenshot'. Make sure 'JPEG (.JPG;.JPEG;.JPE;.JFIF)' is selected in the 'Save as type' box, click “Desktop” on the left pane and then click 'Save'.

Please send this saved JPEG file to us. I, too, have been experiencing this problem, the random icon that is missing and for which Windows substitutes a default icon. I've tried deleting the icon cache in appdata/local/ and rebooting. I've also gone into properties and have reassigned the icon.

(The icon shows up fine in the selection window, but Windows just doesn't accept it.) It's only a few icons that have this problem. (I'm talking about the program icons, not file-association icons.) Yep, same here.

New laptop with windows7 home premium x64 and random icon loss. Removed icon cache.nil result. Darn annoying and it seems no one has a simple explanation or definitive cure.

As for it being a file association corruption, i can't see it as the blank icons all open the correct programs.ie they are correctly associated with the program. If I try to change the desktop icon it will work only for that shortcut but the icons in the 'all programs' pop up still have generic blank icons and greyed out change icon tabs. I had a smaller version of the same problem: only the excel and word icons were shown as 'generic', and only in the 'All programs / microsoft office' section. The icons were OK though on the properties tabs of the shortcuts, and I had a greyed out 'change icon' option.

Have win7 64bit and office 2007. I fixed in in the following way, maybe someone has luck with the same method. I looked at the properties tab the other office icons (that remained fine) in the same place (e.g. The access shortcut). Although it does not list a target location, it lists (on the general tab) a location for itself, which was: C: ProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs Microsoft Office.

I went there with a file explorer (enabling view of hidden and system files). In THAT location, the word and excel shortcuts DID show the correct icon! I then dragged the word-shortcut from there into the start menu (all programs, microsoft office), then released it. I got a popup saying that source and destination file are the same, and I pressed OK, so I guess nothing actually was copied, BUT, now the proper icon was restored! Can't explain it, but it worked for me.

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Lucky shot I guess. I have had this issue come up as well. For example, Microsoft word 2007 shortcut icon was not working along with many others.

To fix it I went into Start, default programs, associate file types and re-associated.docx with Word 2007. Nothing happened. So I then manually browsed to the Word 2007 application exe file in the programs, Microsoft office, office12, Winword.exe and created a shortcut in that folder. I then moved that shortcut to the desktop, renamed it and then pined it to the taskbar. Low and behold all blank icons refreshed and repaired themselves magically.??? I am fixed, but still do not know why the icons are having this hiccup. The Easiest way to fix this problem, which most of the time originates form creating your shortcuts in this manner: Shortcut - Shortcut - Program, these cause the icons to 'lose their way' and appear as just generic icons.

To fix this in windows 7, you need to take the following steps: 1.) Go to start and click on computer 2.) Click on drive 'C:' 3.) Double click on the Program Files Folder 4.) Double click on the Microsoft Office Folder 5.) Double click on the Office12 Folder 6.) Scroll down through that folder past the folders at the top, to where you start seeing individual files. 7.) To restore the shortcut you are missing or is corrupted look for the following names for the programs you want. (You may type these names into the search box in the upper right to make things easier. Program Name of File Access - MSACCESS.exe Excel - EXCEL.exe Groove - GROOVE.exe InfoPath - INFOPATH.exe Publisher - MSPUB.exe Pic Manager - OIS.exe OneNote - ONENOTE.exe Outlook - OUTLOOK.exe PowerPoint - POWERPNT.exe Word - WINWORD.exe 8.) Once you have located the program file for the shortcut you are missing, simply right click and select create shortcut. It will say you can not create shortcut here, and would you like to place it on the desktop, click yes. 9.) Go to your desktop, and right click on the new icon, go to rename and rename it to you desired name.

10.) Enjoy your new icon and your newly restored (proper) icon picture! The Easiest way to fix this problem, which most of the time originates form creating your shortcuts in this manner: Shortcut - Shortcut - Program, these cause the icons to 'lose their way' and appear as just generic icons. To fix this in windows 7, you need to take the following steps: 1.) Go to start and click on computer 2.) Click on drive 'C:' 3.) Double click on the Program Files Folder 4.) Double click on the Microsoft Office Folder 5.) Double click on the Office12 Folder 6.) Scroll down through that folder past the folders at the top, to where you start seeing individual files.

7.) To restore the shortcut you are missing or is corrupted look for the following names for the programs you want. (You may type these names into the search box in the upper right to make things easier. Program Name of File Access - MSACCESS.exe Excel - EXCEL.exe Groove - GROOVE.exe InfoPath - INFOPATH.exe Publisher - MSPUB.exe Pic Manager - OIS.exe OneNote - ONENOTE.exe Outlook - OUTLOOK.exe PowerPoint - POWERPNT.exe Word - WINWORD.exe 8.) Once you have located the program file for the shortcut you are missing, simply right click and select create shortcut. It will say you can not create shortcut here, and would you like to place it on the desktop, click yes. 9.) Go to your desktop, and right click on the new icon, go to rename and rename it to you desired name. 10.) Enjoy your new icon and your newly restored (proper) icon picture!

I'm having a similar issue, but it is not related to the actual shortcuts. All of my.doc/.docx/.xls/.xlsx FILES are missing that application associated icon. When selecting that.doc file or whatever, Word will open and I can use the file. However, I'm having to change settings in Explorer to show extensions of files so that I can locate certain files. Listing the folder in details, the documents is noted as a 'Microsoft Office Word document.' Just my icons are different. They were great until a few weeks ago.

Suddenly happened. I too am having issues with my icons dissapearing. Random icons just suddenly and unexplainedly change to default icons. I first noticed The Google Earth icon and the Agis icon on my desktop had changed. The Windows Mobile Device Center and Acrobat icons have changed under start programs. I tried right clicking on the Google Earth icon and noticed that something akin to a GUID was inserted in the icon path when I clicked the 'Change Icon' button. I was able to redirect it to the program exe and the icon reappeard on the desktop icons but the start menu items are still defunct because the Change Icon button is grayed out and doesn't work.

Please fix this problem it's quite annoying. Always seemed to have this issue with 7.

All the fixes mentioned above are not really going to fix the problem. The issue seems to stem from how Windows 7 handles the caching of icons.

You need to increase the cache size and this should get rid of corruption: 1. Navigate to the following key in the registry: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer 2. Create a REGSZ (string value) called 'Max Cached Icons' (omit quotes but include the spaces) 3. The default value is way too low(500). Bump it to 4096 (4MB) or more, I do 8192(8MB).( edit: you won't actually see a default value as this will be a newly created string, I meant to say it is default to Windows) 4. Reboot and you should be good to go. Here you go, Arthur: Fast machine.

Windows 7 Pro. I am having the same problem. It only is occuring with MS program.

I have all of Office 12 installed and all work correctly; except, I am unable to install MS Project 2007 or MS Project 2010 - which I keep getting a 1310 error. I'm the Administrator. UAC turned off. SubInACL used on registry. Added myself as a full control throughout. Took Ownership. The new layers of security are just unintelligble compared to XP.

Help appreciated.or a referral. I confirm, that program did the job. I just installed it and my corrupted icons in the start menu were fixed directly. However, after uninstalling it, the corrupted icons were back.

Update: Using the 'Repair Icon Cache' of TuneUp Utilities 2010 did the job. After some times, TuneUp Utilities 2010 didn't work anymore: the issue came back (missing icon for some icons in the start menu and missing icons of program in the taskbar (and even in the program files folders). So, I came back to Stardock IconPackager: IconPackager fixed all my Windows 7 icons problem. The only drawback is that the issue will come back as soon as you uninstall it. IconPackager seems to be free (no time limitation), but has very limited features compared to the paid version. But it does the job perfectly (no startup entry, no resident program).

Mahuna, I am totally in the same boat and am really annoyed. For some of my presentations @ my workplace I'm having to name the files as word.xxxxxxxxfile.doc due to the long file names I have to use. Sometimes I have even used a different machine to get the correct 'pretty' view for my boss's. Extemely annoying and I due hope that something comes up good. I'm wondering if there are some files or logs or whatever that can be viewed by Microsoft for them to even take a look at it. Again, none of the above proposals work on my laptop and I won't be installing any 3rd party app, especially when I see that they are not working correctly.

Again I hope that someone(even MSFT) out there is able to possibly exam any specific files, logs or something. I have had this problem a number of times. It seems to always come back. I have reformatted and started fresh. But there must be a conflict with some other program that I have running. The fix to create a new shortcut is NOT A FIX, it barely a Band-Aid.

The problem is still there. I had this problem with Beta and with final release.

I would like to know if Microsoft ever plans to fix or if they even know. I have tried all the suggested fixes from this site and others and none work. And Yes, this is very annoying!!! I tried it both ways, deleting the values per the KB, and also restoring them, and there was no affect on the desktop icons for InfoPath and Access that were blanked by their security patches. In fact, on my Win 7 Ent 64-bit, there was no affect on any icons either way.

What has made it more interesting is that KB2286198 mentions that start menu icons will be defaulted, too. My start menu icons are intact, it's only the desktop icons that are affected. This is occurring for all of our Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit systems, btw. I have opened a ticket with Microsoft support, so let's hope we get something for the $ we're paying.

Thanks, Russell. Hi Arthur, Running Win7 (Vista upgrade) and now have all desktop and 'Start' menu icons appearing as Adobe Reader symbol, including Symantic, Malwarebytes, etc. The following URL shows the result (JPEG). Hi encyclopedia brown, I have the same problem as you and after searching for a day for a definitive solution, i have found this one that works on another forum located here: The reason seems to be that icons stored have for some reason disappeared (inexplicably?). The solution is also stupidly simple after i've tried every suggestion in this thread. 1) go to start menu and search for: cmd 2) right click on cmd and choose 'run as administrator' (- this causes command line to change from C: users to change to: C: windows system32). 3) turn off everything you are doing after saving your work because now you will be closing explorer.exe 4) in the command line enter each command separately and with enter following each line.

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F. CD /d%userprofile% AppData Local.

DEL IconCache.db /a. shutdown /r 5) after the restart, everything should be back to normal. This is a complete fix for the problem and not a work around and I can verify that it worked for me. Good luck all. Hi encyclopedia brown, I have the same problem as you and after searching for a day for a definitive solution, i have found this one that works on another forum located here: The reason seems to be that icons stored have for some reason disappeared (inexplicably?). The solution is also stupidly simple after i've tried every suggestion in this thread.

1) go to start menu and search for: cmd 2) right click on cmd and choose 'run as administrator' (- this causes command line to change from C: users to change to: C: windows system32). 3) turn off everything you are doing after saving your work because now you will be closing explorer.exe 4) in the command line enter each command separately and with enter following each line. taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F.

CD /d%userprofile% AppData Local. DEL IconCache.db /a. shutdown /r 5) after the restart, everything should be back to normal. This is a complete fix for the problem and not a work around and I can verify that it worked for me.

Good luck all. Finally a post that makes some sense. I can confirm that this was the only CORRECT SOLUTION. Don't bother wasting your time with work-arounds and the flimsy Band-Aids suggested. Soon, you will be pulling your hair out and back to reading this forum. The only other useful bit of information was to increase the Max Cached Icons as posted by CrunchyChewie: 1. Navigate to the following key in the registry: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer 2.

Create a REGSZ (string value) called 'Max Cached Icons' (omit quotes but include the spaces) 3. The default value is way too low(500). Bump it to 4096 (4MB) or more, I do 8192(8MB).( edit: you won't actually see a default value as this will be a newly created string, I meant to say it is default to Windows).

The last suggestion only succeeded in making my problem worse. Before implementing the above suggestion the icons on my screen were still present and could be clicked on, but most showed as a default icon rather than the icon associated with the program. After following the above instructions ALL of the icons were displayed a different variation of the generic icon.

I peformed system restore to a point before the icon issues occurred and this worked for about a day. Then FireFox installed an update and everything went back to the same icon issue.

I did another system restore and the issue remained. I uninstalled FireFox, rebooted and the issue persisted. I then went into Windows IE 8 and set IE as the default browser and the very second that I set IE 8 as the default, all of the icons magically reappeared. I hope this helps someone else out. Got this idea from an ino7 post. Go to C: ProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs 2. Highlight any program that has a corrupted icon, go to properties and change icon 3.

Change icon to any icon, click apply and all your icons will probably go back to their intended settings I think the false icons that are displayed are essentially corrupted shortcut arrows trying to reintroduce themselves. The first indication I got of this possible reason was when I went to desktop, pressed 'control' and scrolled down with the mouse. The false icons overlaying the correct icons then reduced in size and took up position where the shortcut arrow normally appears.

Hope this works for all out there. Got this idea from an ino7 post. Go to C: ProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs 2.

Highlight any program that has a corrupted icon, go to properties and change icon 3. Change icon to any icon, click apply and all your icons will probably go back to their intended settings I think the false icons that are displayed are essentially corrupted shortcut arrows trying to reintroduce themselves. The first indication I got of this possible reason was when I went to desktop, pressed 'control' and scrolled down with the mouse. The false icons overlaying the correct icons then reduced in size and took up position where the shortcut arrow normally appears. Hope this works for all out there.

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F. CD /d%userprofile% AppData Local. DEL IconCache.db /a. shutdown /r This one helped me with same problem. I had those kind of problem that some shortcuts had missing icons, though when going to their properties - icons were shown, and just changing shortcut icon didn't help. After a restart all icons were back to normal. I had problems with icons of Skype, uTorrent, AIMP2.

Maybe something else. But also I have to note, that 'shutdown' command didn't work for me. Win7 Ultimate x64. Okay, this is the only solution that makes any sense. However, it is not working for me. Same scenario: my Word 2007 docx files abruptly displayed different icons this morning. I have tried three or four different fixes, none of which work, and I don't want to dl a third-party program.

(These icons are not shortcuts, and I am unable to apply the fix of switching the default program out and then back.) I go into the CMD as admin and enter the first two commands. So far so good. I enter the third command and it replies, 'Could Not Find C: Users MYUSERNAME AppData Local IconCache.db.' What can I do?:-/. So for me it took 2 things, not either on their own worked.

But the answer is in this thread!!! And this is a major flaw with windows yet to be fixed, even after Win7 SP1. Step 1: Increase Registry for icons Step 2: Follow the actions to delete the ICON cache EXACTLY as follows!! If you do not kill explorer it doesn't work! Navigate to the following key in the registry: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer 2.

Create a REGSZ (string value) called 'Max Cached Icons' (omit quotes but include the spaces) 3. The default value is way too low(500). Bump it to 4096 (4MB) or more, I do 8192(8MB) Step 2: Open ad Admin elevated cmd prompt and paste these 4 lines in one at a time. taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F.

CD /d%userprofile% AppData Local. DEL IconCache.db /a. shutdown /r. After trying what Kring1011 said (joins CrunchyChewie and coefficients' solutions, so thanks to them too!), I made this little script you can use to solve the problem just by running this.bat file. @echo off reg DELETE HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer /v 'Max Cached Icons' /f reg ADD HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer /v 'Max Cached Icons' /t REGSZ /d 8196 taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F If exist%userprofile% AppData Local IconCache.db goto delID goto:main:delID cd /d%userprofile% AppData Local del IconCache.db /a goto main:main shutdown /r /t 0 exit This will change your Icon Cache DB size to 8196, regenerate the Icon Cache DB by deletion and finally reboot your system. I hope you find it usefull! I tried everything published without results.

So, I did it the hard way, and one at a time. Use Windows explorer and create a shortcut of the programs you need to change the icons on your desktop.

Go to the orb, all programs to see if the icons are still incorrect. Use explorer, go to the drive where program data files are stored. Open the directory: program data Microsoft windows start menu programs. You need to have admin privileges for this: delete the shortcuts with the wrong icons, then drag the desktop shortcuts with the correct icons and drop them into that directory with a 'move', click continue, or OK. Do these one at a time, then check the icons on your 'all programs'.

You can rename the application shortcuts to look like what they were originally. When you click on the applications now, they show up with the correct icons on the task bar as well. If you have tried to fix this issue using the 'delete icon cache' and 'max cached icons' methods and still do not have icons try this; First make sure you are able to view hidden and system files! To enable this:. In any open windows explorer window, press the ALT key to view the folder menu bar. Click on Tools menu, and select Folder Options. Click on the View tab.

Under the Hidden files and folders section select the radio button labeled Show hidden files, folders, and drives. Remove the check mark from the Hide protected operating system files and click OK if prompt appears asking if you want to continue. Click on the OK button at the bottom of the Folder Options window.

To repair Icons:. Open up ' My Computer' and navigate to the ' C: Windows' directory. Scroll down to the ' Installer' folder.

Right click the ' Installer' folder and choose ' Properties'. Click on the ' Previous Versions' tab and wait for the list to populate with previous versions.

Choose one from a date that you know/believe your icons were working, click on it, and choose ' Copy'. In the box that pops up, tell it to copy to the ' C: Windows' folder. If a warning pops up click on the ' yes' box to Merge folders. When/If a warning pops up asking if you want to ' Copy/Replace' choose ' Do not Copy' and make sure that you put a check mark in the ' Do this for the next # conflicts' (You do not want to copy OVER the existing files, you just want to merge the new files into the same directory as the existing) When the copy is finished close all open folders and return to your Desktop. Right click on your desktop and select ' Refresh' Your Icons Should be restored! Got this idea from an ino7 post. Go to C: ProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs 2.

Highlight any program that has a corrupted icon, go to properties and change icon 3. Change icon to any icon, click apply and all your icons will probably go back to their intended settings I think the false icons that are displayed are essentially corrupted shortcut arrows trying to reintroduce themselves. The first indication I got of this possible reason was when I went to desktop, pressed 'control' and scrolled down with the mouse. The false icons overlaying the correct icons then reduced in size and took up position where the shortcut arrow normally appears. Hope this works for all out there. Hi, First of all many thanks to mpdjr, this will surely work for everyone,atleast for existing shorcuts,i've no of.exe icons transformed into nothing,but this trick works well, In START menu 1.

Go to all Programmes. Select what you need. Right click: Properties: Shortcut: Change Icon: Select an icon Or Browse for an.ico file.

I too had mostly generic icons on my Windows 7 desktop, but on the desktop only. My start menu and taskbar were okay.

Maybe there are different solutions to this problem, but here's what worked for me: I went to HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer Shell Icons. There was a REGSZ value for a program I had already uninstalled. The name of the string value was 29 and the data read 'C: Program Files (x86) TweakNow PowerPack 2010 Blank.ico.' I deleted this key and rebooted and my desktop icons were no longer generic. Maybe this will work for you as well. I got the same problem, but I managed to resolve it First enable the view of hidden files and folders.

This can be done like this 1)Open the windows explorer 2) press the ALT key, an addtional menu bar should be visible 3) go to tools - folder options 4) click the view tab 5) Chose the option 'show hidden files and folders'. Click apply and accept Next, go to the folder C: Windows Installer Right click in a white spot and choose properties Go to the past versions tab and wait the system to load past versions. You should get a screen similar to this one Double click a version that you know the icons worked. A new window should open. Copy all of the contents of that folder into your C: Windows Installer folder Wait for it to copy and then restart Windows. Your icons should be back Hope this helps.

Sorry for my bad English and the inaccurate names, but my system is in Spanish. This works (the instructions quoted below) and seems to be a permanent fix.

Just browse to the program files folder of whatever program is displaying the generic icon and right click-sendto: desktop as shortcut. Then you can simply drag that desktop icon into your quick launch or right click again and pin to start menu. Mine were corrupted when I installed adobe reader. The Easiest way to fix this problem, which most of the time originates form creating your shortcuts in this manner: Shortcut - Shortcut - Program, these cause the icons to 'lose their way' and appear as just generic icons. To fix this in windows 7, you need to take the following steps: 1.) Go to start and click on computer 2.) Click on drive 'C:' 3.) Double click on the Program Files Folder 4.) Double click on the Microsoft Office Folder 5.) Double click on the Office12 Folder 6.) Scroll down through that folder past the folders at the top, to where you start seeing individual files.

7.) To restore the shortcut you are missing or is corrupted look for the following names for the programs you want. (You may type these names into the search box in the upper right to make things easier.

Program Name of File Access - MSACCESS.exe Excel - EXCEL.exe Groove - GROOVE.exe InfoPath - INFOPATH.exe Publisher - MSPUB.exe Pic Manager - OIS.exe OneNote - ONENOTE.exe Outlook - OUTLOOK.exe PowerPoint - POWERPNT.exe Word - WINWORD.exe 8.) Once you have located the program file for the shortcut you are missing, simply right click and select create shortcut. It will say you can not create shortcut here, and would you like to place it on the desktop, click yes. 9.) Go to your desktop, and right click on the new icon, go to rename and rename it to you desired name. 10.) Enjoy your new icon and your newly restored (proper) icon picture! I don't know if it'll work for you all but when i fixed the problem it was much simpler than whatever everyone else is suggesting, and it worked without any third party apps.

Just right click on any lost icon saved file (in my case-word and excel) and make sure its an actual saved doc, not the original application/shortcut. Then click on properties, click on the change button (referring to 'opens with' section) and double click on the application you used want to fix. Then click apply and done. It will set all alike programs (all other word/excel docs) to the correct icon. DONE and FIXED.

My Windows 7 32-bit system with Acrobat 9 Pro and Adobe Reader X installed had the same issue. No PDF thumbnails were shown in Windows Explorer, just Acrobat icons. I simply changed the default file association from Acrobat 9 to Adobe Reader and now I have nice thumbnails of PDF's in Explorer again. Windows Control Panel All Control Panel Items Default Programs Set Associations PDF Change Program Adobe Reader X I think the issue is that Acrobat is not good at thumbnails in either 32 or 64 bit environments.

I had a smaller version of the same problem: only the excel and word icons were shown as 'generic', and only in the 'All programs / microsoft office' section. The icons were OK though on the properties tabs of the shortcuts, and I had a greyed out 'change icon' option. Have win7 64bit and office 2007. I fixed in in the following way, maybe someone has luck with the same method. I looked at the properties tab the other office icons (that remained fine) in the same place (e.g.

The access shortcut). Although it does not list a target location, it lists (on the general tab) a location for itself, which was: C: ProgramData Microsoft Windows Start Menu Programs Microsoft Office. I went there with a file explorer (enabling view of hidden and system files). In THAT location, the word and excel shortcuts DID show the correct icon!

I then dragged the word-shortcut from there into the start menu (all programs, microsoft office), then released it. I got a popup saying that source and destination file are the same, and I pressed OK, so I guess nothing actually was copied, BUT, now the proper icon was restored! Can't explain it, but it worked for me.

Lucky shot I guess. This worked for me. This has been bugging me for over a month. Always seemed to have this issue with 7.

All the fixes mentioned above are not really going to fix the problem. The issue seems to stem from how Windows 7 handles the caching of icons. You need to increase the cache size and this should get rid of corruption: 1. Navigate to the following key in the registry: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer 2. Create a REGSZ (string value) called 'Max Cached Icons' (omit quotes but include the spaces) 3. The default value is way too low(500).

Bump it to 4096 (4MB) or more, I do 8192(8MB).( edit: you won't actually see a default value as this will be a newly created string, I meant to say it is default to Windows) 4. Reboot and you should be good to go. THIS WORKED PERFECTLY! THANK YOU!!!! Nearly all the icons were missing on my start menu Windows 7 Home Premium, i read a lot of websites like this one,loads of answers,that either did'nt work or i had'nt got a clue what they were talking about,anyway about 90% of icons had done one,also only one programme worked, the default one,which at the time was a pretty windows middle class flower. Then i read this one site and this guy or guyette (we don't call birds, guys in the UK, that's some weird yank thing!) said to try ICON PACKAGER, You have to pay for it,BUT don't panic if your on the dole like me, you can get it on a trial period,i downloaded it and it's got a lot of posey little icons, but it's also got some tools,it was easy to read (even for me) and within five min's my icons and more importantly,in the computer world anyway, the programmes came back.

Now i don't know if it will work for other people,but it's free as long as you get it on trial, and it took about five minutes to sort,so it's got to be worth a try. Oh yea, i soppose this will get edited out by some geek who perfers to shag his laptop,but why call the little badges or emblems or signs, ICONS, to me an Icon is something like a Crucifix or a Star and Crescent,not forgetting the old Hammer and Sickle!

Prem- 's solution worked for me. My symptoms: In File Explorer I could not see the correct icons for any applications (e.g. Acrobat or Word or Excel and so on did not show their correct icons and were at some sort of default state so all of the icons looked the same). I could however see the correct icons for the shortcuts to Outlook, Word, Excel etc. On my Taskbar. I could not see the correct icons on my Word or Excel etc files on my Desktop. I followed Prem's suggestions from October 28, 2011.

Certainly read his, or follow along as I took notes a bit differently that may make it easier for you. Open File Explorer to see one of your corrupted icons. I right clicked on a file that had a corrupted icon (any file will do but mine happened to be an Acrobat file w/ a broken icon). Then I selected 'Open with'. Then 'Choose Default Program'.

Then 'Browse.' Then I found the program location file for Adobe Acrobat (on my Windows 7 64 bit system it was located here C: Program Files (x86) Adobe Acrobat 10.0 Acrobat). I clicked on Acrobat.exe, then Open, then OK. Somehow the other icons that were broken showed up as well. Dunno, but it worked sweet.

Other solutions may work for other users but this worked for me. It is worth a shot and is pretty low tech. Thank you so much CrunchyChewie! I had (6) PC's with this problem. It wasn't just the file association icons either. It was This PC, Control Panel, Devices and Printers, and the File Icons. The computer would hang and say 'Working on it' endlessly.

I used your fix, rebooted, and BAM all them were cured of this issue that has been plaguing me since I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10. I deleted all of the icon caches in the AppData many times. In fact, I didn't even have to do that after I used your fix. Just rebooted and it must have started adding all of the missing icons right away.

I did wait for the computer to fully load in everything in the System Tray too before I even tried to look in any of those places I mentioned above. I don't know if that mattered, but I didn't want to interrupt anything while it was building/adding to the Icon Cache.

You are AWESOME!