Guest Justin Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white page icon. How do I get the original ones back and how do I prevent this from happening in the future?
Guest Ron Badour Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Missing icon pictures It sounds like your .ico association has been clobbered. Try using Tweak UI, Repair, Rebuild Icons. If you don't have it, download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D43BC344-5669-45C4-9CE4-C1790F42E7B8@microsoft.com... > Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white page > icon. How do I get the original ones back and how do I prevent this from > happening in the future?
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted September 9, 2007 Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Missing icon pictures "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white > page icon. How do I get the original ones back Install TweakUI. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now. Next: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm (Line 4) > and how do I prevent this from happening in the future? You may want to increase the icon cache. Start > Run: Regedit. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign the value "4096". Reboot when done. -- d-d
Guest Justin Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Missing icon pictures What caused it to happen? (Icon pictures all change to default icon picture, white page) "Detlev Dreyer" wrote: > "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white > > page icon. How do I get the original ones back > > Install TweakUI. > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx > > TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now. > > Next: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm (Line 4) > > > and how do I prevent this from happening in the future? > > You may want to increase the icon cache. Start > Run: Regedit. > Navigate to > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer > > Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign > the value "4096". Reboot when done. > > -- > d-d >
Guest Ron Badour Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Missing icon pictures Some unknown action broke the icon association in the registry. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FF4FEB39-B1EA-445C-AD1C-F608BF627E8B@microsoft.com... > What caused it to happen? (Icon pictures all change to default icon > picture, > white page) > > "Detlev Dreyer" wrote: > >> "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> > Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white >> > page icon. How do I get the original ones back >> >> Install TweakUI. >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx >> >> TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now. >> >> Next: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm (Line 4) >> >> > and how do I prevent this from happening in the future? >> >> You may want to increase the icon cache. Start > Run: Regedit. >> Navigate to >> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer >> >> Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign >> the value "4096". Reboot when done. >> >> -- >> d-d >>
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 Re: Missing icon pictures "Justin" <Justin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > What caused it to happen? (Icon pictures all change to default icon picture, > white page) The damaged icon cache (IconCache.db), most likely. -- d-d
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