Icons gone blank and non-functional

[+Bob+]

Vista SP1

As I was working tonight, some of my icons turned into blank "pages"
(icon of a blank page) and stopped working. Clicking on them causes no
reaction at all.

There was no catastrophic event, nothing of any significance happened
while I was working. I just went to use an icon for Front Page in the
task bar, and it was blank. Then I noticed the icon for Calculator
Plus was blank. Same issue, icon does nothing. Looking around, I found
that the icons for the MS Office programs were all blank. So was Paint
Shop Pro.

I tried to call those programs from the start menu and they were
similarly displaying blank icons and not working. In fact, on the MS
Office Tools menu, all the miscellaneous features were blank.

Going to Control Panel-> Programs and Features, I found that all of
those programs were displaying blank icons - along with a few more,
including some factory installed programs from Toshiba, Adobe Acrobat,
etc.

I was able to "fix" the problems manually by going to the program
directories and manually creating shortcuts to the programs and
putting them onto the desktop.

Is this a known issue? Are there any fixes?

 

[+Bob+]

Have you tried rebuilding your icon cache?

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

I will try that and report back.

Thanks,

 

[+Bob+]

Have you tried rebuilding your icon cache?

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

Didn't help. It does seemed to have speeded up initial icon display,
but the icons in error are still blank and non-functional. There are
also still blank icons in Programs and Features.