All exe (and shortcuts to exe's) use generic icon after uninstall.

Published on March 2, 2009 By GollyJer In MyColors

Hi. I installed MyColors, installed a theme, decided I didn't want it any longer, set the theme back to system default, uninstalled MyColors. Now all my exe (and shortcuts to exe's) files use the generic system icon. The applications work with no problems but not having the icons if fairly annoying. I'm using Vista x64 if that helps.

Thanks for any advice.

-Jeremy

Comments

Gargabee

on Mar 03, 2009

To try to resolve this problem download the trial version of another one of our programs called IconPackager from here:
http://storage.stardock.com/files/iconpackager_public.exe

Install and then run IconPackager.

In IconPackager, under Settings>System Settings you can use the 'Rebuild Icon Cache' and Repair Icon Images buttons, which should help with this issue. If not, try the Repair Shell Icons... button and select "Repair shell icons for all processes" and click OK.

GollyJer

on Mar 24, 2009

Kend0. Thanks for the advice. It worked great.

-Jeremy

Gargabee

on Mar 24, 2009

The newest version of MyColors available via Impulse has the 'Rebuild Icon Cache' feature built right into it. For reference for anyone else having this problem, click the 'Settings' tab and then you will find the button at the bottom middle of the window.

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