Missing icon pictures

[Guest]

Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white page
icon. How do I get the original ones back and how do I prevent this from
happening in the future?

 

[Ron Badour]

It sounds like your .ico association has been clobbered. Try using Tweak
UI, Repair, Rebuild Icons. If you don't have it, download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

Icon pictures are missing and have been replaced by th default white
page icon. How do I get the original ones back

Install TweakUI.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

TweakUI > Repair > Rebuild Icons > Repair now.

Next: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm (Line 4)

and how do I prevent this from happening in the future?

You may want to increase the icon cache. Start > Run: Regedit.
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Create the string value "Max Cached Icons" in the right pane and assign
the value "4096". Reboot when done.

 

[Guest]

What caused it to happen? (Icon pictures all change to default icon picture,
white page)

 

[Ron Badour]

Some unknown action broke the icon association in the registry.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

What caused it to happen? (Icon pictures all change to default icon picture,
white page)

The damaged icon cache (IconCache.db), most likely.