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(Solved) - Desktop icons change from original (real) icons to generic
(8 posts)I think this happens after restarting, but I'm not sure what program prompted me to restart. My Wells Fargo Bank icon is a Playboy Rabbit Head, the Amazon.com is generic, and the Playboy Cyber Club is the same as the Google icon, a big weird G. I just got the Geek Head yesterday, and today it is generic also.
Hi, Charlie, and welcome. Are you talking about desktop icons that are URL Shortcut files (.url)? Which browser are you using and how do you create the desktop shortcuts? In order to help you, I find that I am forced to navigate to the Playboy website in another tab. I see the rabbit head favicon and,..um, what were we discussing? I, um.., you should,.., um, I'm going to have to get back to you.
Hi Scott: Sorry about forcing you to check out my favorite website. I recently had a problem with HP, and let their technician take control of my computer. When we finished, the problem was solved, but the next morning I noticed that several of my desktop icons (.url shortcuts) had changed- some were now generic, and others had been swapped with each other: Amazon.com icon was generic, Playboy CyberClub was a Google weird G, etc. Yesterday I changed my default browser to Google, and reset my desktop appearance to Windows Vista Basic, and my screen resolution to 1600x1000, and I got the correct, original (real) Amazon.com icon back, and my Wells Fargo Bank changed from the Playboy Rabbit Head back to the correct one. All that's good, but I don't know what I did to change things, and I still have the Google G for my CygerClub icon. I usually Google a website, then create a desktop icon for it. Does any of this make sense to you? Thanks.
Hi Charlie. I have an idea of what you are talking. Sometimes when icons or fonts mysteriously change, just switching to another theme and then back, solved it. We have had that here before. (my own system included)
Charlie, I know exactly what you are talking about. I just wanted to make sure that we are talking about the same thing. Also, I was curious to know which browser you use. With Internet Explorer, you can right-click in a page and select 'Create shortcut' and it will create an Internet Shortcut file on your desktop and use the the favicon from the website for the icon. I have seen this work on my desktop and I have seen the icons get messed up just as you describe. I think the problem is that the favicons from the websites live in some temporary place where they can be deleted or renamed.
If you have some URLs on your desktop that you plan to use often, and are willing to go through a little extra trouble, you can make the icons more permanent. First, you need to make a folder to hold your website icons. Then navigate to the page, make your desktop shortcut, then find the favicon in the browser's cache. In IE7, select Tools -> Internet Options -> Browsing History Settings button -> View Files button. Set the view to small/medium/large icons so you can see the one you are looking for. It may be that they are always called 'favicon.ico' with sequence numbers in square brackets []. Make a copy of the icon you are after in the folder you designated to hold your website icons. Rename the .ico file to something descriptive. Now, find the desktop shortcut, right-click and select Properties and on the Web Document tab, click the Change Icon button, then click the Browse button. Navigate to your website icons folder, find the one you want and choose it. Done.
This procedure will keep those icons in a permanent place instead of some cache folder somewhere. Once the icons are set this way, they should not get jumbled or reset to default. If they do, it will be easy to set them back.
Scott, I just changed themes - from Vista Basic to Windows Classic, then back to Vista Basic and - lo & behold, I got my Rabbit Head icon back, and all the other icons are correct. Now I'm going to do as you suggested, then I'm cutting my fingers off. Thanks for the help.
This is interesting. I knew that the theme change would restore the standard icons like Recycle bin (had to do that a couple of times myself), - but it is good to know that it will also take care of custom icons.
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So, I had been thinking about where these little icons are stored when I remembered that Windows has an icon cache. Once that came back to me, it was easy to search up some answers. Here I found a KB article at Microsoft for what to do when your icons are messed up. What do you suppose the official, manufacturer-recommended procedure is? Change the video setting to something else, then back again!
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132668/en-us
Switch ip on mac software. Oh, the irony. It's like having an appliance repairman come to your house, and he slaps the side of the appliance to get it working again. :D
The other advice I found several times is to delete the IconCache.db file in AppDataLocal, which may require you to shutdown explorer. This will cause the icon cache to be rebuilt on the next system restart. This thread has a good write-up (and includes the official MS hand slap as option 2)
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html
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Identifying files by their icon is perhaps more important than being able to locate the programs you use, since for the most part you will likely be browsing your files when using the Finder on your Mac. However, there are some instances where the icons for your files will just appear as generic white documents, leaving you unable to distinguish them and less likely to identify them. This may happen for a number of reasons, including using incompatible third-party cleaner tools for your Mac, or problems with restoring from backups. If you are finding yourself in this situation, then there are several things you can do to restore your icons.
Rebuild OS X’s Launch Services
OS X associates programs and files with the system’s launch services, which gathers a list of the programs on your system and the file types that they can handle, and then links them so when you open a file, the appropriate program is launched to handle it.
As part of this association, OS X will adopt icons within the handling program to use with these files. If this association is broken in the launch services, then the system may not know what files your programs are capable of opening, which in turn may have OS X resort to a generic icon for these files.To fix this specific problem, you can try resetting the system’s launch services, which can be done by running the following command in the OS X Terminal. Note that the command is buried deep in the system so it is very long; however, you should be able to copy the following multi-line version of it and paste it into the Terminal to run it:
In addition to launch services, OS X contains a few system caches that handle application icons so the system does not have to constantly pull them from programs you have installed. These are buried in the system’s temporary folder structures for the system and user accounts, but can be found and removed by running the following command in the Terminal
When done, reboot your Mac into Safe Mode (hold the Shift key at startup) and then restart normally. Note that after removing these caches and rebuilding the launch services, that you may have to open the programs again before the files these programs handle will regain their icons.
The info window’s Open With section contains an option to “Change All” documents of this type to open with the selected program.
Specify the handler for the files
Another quick option that may reset the file’s status in the system’s launch services is to re-associate it with its handling program, which can be done in the information window for any file of its type:
- Select the file and press Command-i to get information on it
- Expand the Open With section
- Choose any program from the drop-down menu other than the current one, even if the current is the desired one.
- Click the “Change All” button and confirm this action
- Re-select your initial (or desired) program, and again click “Change All.”
Uninstall duplicate applications
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Conflicts for handling different files may occur if you have (or have had) multiple versions of the same program on your system. For instance, if a program was at version 1.0 and you installed a separate instance of version 2.0, then files associated with version 1.0 may not open if you remove this program, even though version 2.0 is present. Granted specifying these files to open within version 2.0 should have the system make the proper association; however, an easy way to avoid such conflicts is to remove older software versions unless you absolutely need them.
Sometimes applications may not be in expected places, two of which are the Macintosh HD > Applications folder, and the Users > username > Applications folder (not created by default); however, they can be anywhere else if you have moved them, even on external hard drives.
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Reinstall the application for the affected file types
Finally, you might try reinstalling the programs you have for handling these files. If there is damage to your files’ current installations, then the system might not be able to access the icon resources for them. A quick solution to this and similar problems is to re-download the program, or otherwise reinstall it.