Anybody got any ideas? The correct icons for the Office Apps & various others have all dissappeared off my Start Menu, they're all the same default icon. If I open the properties for the apps, the target is given as the application, not the acutal location of the file, the Change Icon box is greyed out.
They all work fine, It would just be nice to have the correct icons back without having to set up all new shortcuts.
Alex
Get a prog called TweakUI.
Its an app that once installed sits in the control panel.
On the icons tab, there is an option to 'Rebuild Icons'. Windows is shit at remembering things - icons being one of them!
Simple statement, sums it up!
Stuart
Cheers. Now I'm off to the store to buy a new DVD-RW as mine has just produced 4 coasters in a row and now refuses to recognise any discs
Alex
PS. I now have less correct icons than before......
Alex
is that after running TweakUI?
If it is, then you could try doing what it does manually...
Delete IconCache.db from c:\Documents and Settings/YOUR USERNAME/Local Settings/Application Data and it should rebuild them....
Mm, it refreshed the explorer icon cache, but hasn't solved the problem. It seems to be mainly the Office icons which are affected, so I've done a repair installation instead. The other ones I'll do manually.
Aelx
Medium term solution...
Dump M$ Office. (I know, I know, it costs a fortune, I got caught as well...)
Get a 2 gig flash memory stick for a tenner off the net.
Install 'Portable apps' including Star office on it.
Now it all works on everybody's computer (well, the M$ ones) and all your documents are there and proper backups are something you can do with only one computer in the house without littering the place with CDs.
It allows you to use cyber cafe computers without the ghastly security risks of typing your passwords on their machine as well.
It also gets you out from under from M$ Internet Exploder and bloody silly Outlook, except for Newsgroups...
Some folk at work use OpenOffice which is an open source alternative to MS Office. Its really good, and handle most office types documents and can read and write to the same file ext's. It cant do databases though...
Openoffice.org from memory..
You did? I didn't
Alex
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