Icons!

[Arpan]

I have both Windows 2000 Professional & Windows XP Professional installed in my machine.

When I logged into Win2000 today, to my surprise, I found that all the default icons for the various programs have changed on its own. For e.g. IE6's icon in Quick Launch (Taskbar) has changed to the icon which by default is associated with Search. When I tried to change it to the default icon by clicking the "Change Icon" button (right-clicking IE|Properties|Shortcut) & selecting the default icon (in %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE), the icon does not change; in fact it vanishes!! After sometime, it reverts back to the same icon which was there (i.e. before I tried to change the icon) when the mouse is moved over!

What could the problem be & how do I restore all the programs to their default icons?

Please note that the icons in WinXP aren't showing the same problem!

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Guillermo]

I've had that happen once in a while and restarting solves the problem. It
doesnt show up in another few months or a year.
Not a clue why that happens, but once a year or so is not bad at all.

guillermo

I have both Windows 2000 Professional & Windows XP Professional installed in
my machine.

When I logged into Win2000 today, to my surprise, I found that all the
default icons for the various programs have changed on its own. For e.g.
IE6's icon in Quick Launch (Taskbar) has changed to the icon which by
default is associated with Search. When I tried to change it to the default
icon by clicking the "Change Icon" button (right-clicking
IE|Properties|Shortcut) & selecting the default icon (in
%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE), the icon does not change; in
fact it vanishes!! After sometime, it reverts back to the same icon which
was there (i.e. before I tried to change the icon) when the mouse is moved
over!

What could the problem be & how do I restore all the programs to their
default icons?

Please note that the icons in WinXP aren't showing the same problem!

Thanks,

Arpan

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

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I have both Windows 2000 Professional & Windows XP Professional
installed in my machine.

When I logged into Win2000 today, to my surprise, I found that all
the default icons for the various programs have changed on its own.
For e.g. IE6's icon in Quick Launch (Taskbar) has changed to the icon
which by default is associated with Search. When I tried to change it
to the default icon by clicking the "Change Icon" button
(right-clicking IE|Properties|Shortcut) & selecting the default icon
(in %ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE), the icon does not
change; in fact it vanishes!! After sometime, it reverts back to the
same icon which was there (i.e. before I tried to change the icon)
when the mouse is moved over!

What could the problem be & how do I restore all the programs to
their default icons?

Please note that the icons in WinXP aren't showing the same problem!

Thanks,

Arpan

TweakUI has an icon repair facility to fix this if it happens

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/powertoys/networking/nttweakui.asp