What happens if you create a temporary new user profile or log into
another
account? Is the IE Icon normal or looks corrupted?
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William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
and it did, for a day and a half. go figure. anyway, I have decided
to
just
delete the icon off my desktop as it bothers me so much. I will just
learn
to use the link on my task bar. Thanks again SOOO much for your help.
:
You're welcome bjhomer.
I believe the shell32.dll file **may** have been corrupted. I am not
certain about this, but when you logged back in, Windows **may** have
copied
the shell32.dll file to the System32 folder since you could not do
this
before because the file was **probably** in use. Hopefully the Icon
will
retain itself now.
--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
ok, this is weird.... the computer went idle, and when i logged
back
onto
my
account, my blue "E" was back! *crossing my fingers* that this time
it
will
stick!! If it does, thank you SOOOO much!! If it doesn't, I will
just
message you again, if that's ok! But here's hopin'!!!
:
What happens if you type the following line in the command prompt
(START
RUN > CMD.EXE):
copy "%windir%\system32\dllcache\shell32.dll"
"%windir%\system32\shell32.dll" (all one line)
or if you installed Service Pack 2.
copy "%windir%\ServicePackFiles\i386\shell32.dll"
"%windir%\system32\shell32.dll" (all one line)
Then refresh the desktop.
--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
ok, tried that... nothing changed... however, this is odd...
after i
did
that
I tried once again to go to Control Panel, Display, Desktop, and
then
Customize Desktop, where I first removed the IE desktop icon and
then
put
it
back. Still the same silly icon. Then, I decided to try to
change
the
My
Computer Icon to the usual blue "E" just to see what would
happen...
I
chose
Change Icon and found the blue "E" and changed it, and the My
Computer
Icon
immediately became the aforementioned silly icon. NOT the blue
"E"
that I
chose. So what is that about???? Of course, I put it right back
with
no
problems. You are trying so hard to help me, and I really
appreciate
it.
Please don't give up on me yet!!
:
See if this will fix your Icon problem. Download the file and
import
into
the registry by running the file. You can view the contents of
the
file
by
saving to desktop and then right-click on the file and select
edit.
http://www.lprf.ca/files/ie_icon.reg
After running the registration file, refresh the desktop.
--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
rebooting did nothing, also it is interesting to note that the
IE
icon
is
messed up only on my account. the other accounts still have
the
original
blue "E" icon.
:
message
yeah, tried that already... works for every other icon
EXCEPT
for
the
IE...
the "change icon" option isn't even there for the IE...
Any
other
ideas?
See if this registry location is correct:
[HKCR\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
Name: (Default)
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Value: shdoclc.dll,-190
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Then go to these two locations,
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}]
and
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}]
If there is a key called "DefaultIcon" key, then delete the
key
"DefaultIcon". If the "DefaultIcon is present in these
registration
locations will override the HKCR registration reference.
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Also see if this registry location is correct::
HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon]
Name: (Default)
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Value: shdoclc.dll,-190
This registration reference will also override the HKCR
registration
reference.
