Quick Launch Icons do not match Applications

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I am running Windows XP SP3. I have 11 Quick Launch Shortcuts on my task
bar. The icons do not match the applications. For Example the IE8 icon
looks like an Adobe file today. Yesterday it looked like the Excel Icon.
This my work computer with an incredibly restricted firewall. I have checked
the latest virus scans and no issues found. My machine is a Dell Latitude
E6400. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
 
I am running Windows XP SP3. I have 11 Quick Launch Shortcuts on my task
bar. The icons do not match the applications. For Example the IE8 icon
looks like an Adobe file today. Yesterday it looked like the Excel Icon.
This my work computer with an incredibly restricted firewall. I have checked
the latest virus scans and no issues found. My machine is a Dell Latitude
E6400. Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
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These two links can be of some help.
http://www.wedoc.com/icon_cache_increase.htm
This shows a "step by step" how to increase icon cache numbers.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
If you download and install the "TweakUI" tool,look for repair icons in
the tool.

You can download to a "flash drive" on home computer and see if you can
install on the work computer.

If you can't download and install suggest asking "if available" computer
repair person.

take care.
 
I am running Windows XP SP3.  I have 11 Quick Launch Shortcuts on my task
bar.  The icons do not match the applications.  For Example the IE8 icon
looks like an Adobe file today.  Yesterday it looked like the Excel Icon.  
This my work computer with an incredibly restricted firewall.  I have checked
the latest virus scans and no issues found.  My machine is a Dell Latitude
E6400.  Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
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You could always try some things - that is popular advice. Maybe you
will get lucky.

You could read this article from MS and see if sounds like it applies
to you:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q132668/

If you do have an incredibly restricted firewall, it sounds like you
have installed some third party firewall and are not using the
Windows firewall? (you did not offer any details) since your
descriptive adjectives make it sound terribly intimidating - therefore
you must be safe. And if your latest virus scans did not find any
issues (are you using the "good" virus scanning tools?), maybe you
need to consider expanding the horizons of your scanning tools a bit.
It is reasonable to believe that even moderately sophisticated malware
authors in a 10th grade computer class know quite a bit about the
scanning tools used in the world and know how to compose software that
will escape detection. That is part of their geeky competitive fun -
annoy and evade detection/removal and they will commit considerable
otherwise productive time cycles to win first place.

Just what does the TweakUI repair icons tool do anyway and what would
I do if TweakUI had not been invented yet?
 
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