Start Menu icons

[Windwatcher]

As I recall, my Start Menu/Programs used to display icons for the different
programs, but recently they call changed to the generic folder icon, which
means it's harder to find what I want. Is there a way to get them to
display the same kind of icon that shows on the desktop?

 

[Rich Barry]

You could try rt clicking on the All Programs Shortcut Icon you want to
change and select Properties>Customize>Change
Icon.

 

[John Doue]

You could try rt clicking on the All Programs Shortcut Icon you want to
change and select Properties>Customize>Change
Icon.

Of course, you could change manually each icon for each program. If, as
I, you have hundreds, good luck. I am almost positive a utilitie program
allows to do such repairs very easily, but I must admit, I cannot
remember which one. I will keep looking. One option might be to run a
registry repair program which might detect this problem. But what did
you do that might have caused this to happen?

 

[Guest]

try system restore!!

 

[Rich]

As I recall, my Start Menu/Programs used to display icons for the
different programs, but recently they call changed to the generic folder
icon, which means it's harder to find what I want. Is there a way to
get them to display the same kind of icon that shows on the desktop?

Try "repair icons" in tweakui

Rich

 

[Windwatcher]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll try Tweak UI first.

 

[anderson_geller]

Try this tool to categorize your program icons.

StartEx, a program launcher, helps you categorize your programs with
different colors, so you can find and launch them more quickly.
Size: 410K, OS: windows 2000/xp/vista
HomePage: http://www.zalentino.com
Download:http://www.zalentino.com/startex/zal_downloadstartex_en.jsp

 

[John Doue]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll try Tweak UI first.

This is what I had in mind but I have so many utilities installed, I
could not remember which one could do this.

Thanks