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I have installed the Opera browser on my Windows 7 64-bit.

since it is my main browser, I pinned it to the taskbar. however the opera icon does not appear, instead the default Windows icon is show. I even tried changing the icon to another one and unpinning and repinning, but still that default Windows file icon remains.

what could I do to show the icon?

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Is it only Opera? Do you have same problem with other app icons? – o.k.w Oct 17 '09 at 8:46
for the moment it is only opera. other applications work fine! – clamp Oct 17 '09 at 8:52
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I had this problem with a CCleaner icon. It would be pinned, but be the blank unknown application icon. I just removed it and tried again. Worked second time. Don't know why!

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thanks good idea! however it didnt help in my situation! – clamp Oct 17 '09 at 9:29
It's possible that I had updated CCleaner before the second attempt. Have you tried updating or uninstalling and reinstalling Opera? – outsideblasts Oct 17 '09 at 10:10
thanks! not yet, i will try soon! – clamp Oct 17 '09 at 14:37
reinstalling helped. – clamp Oct 17 '09 at 21:49
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You may have to Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 7

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If one or more of your icons are not displaying correctly, or that your icon cache is corrupted, then you might consider rebuilding the icon cache to reset and reload the icon images into the icon cache.

Note
This will not help with any of the following icon issues:

1-A shortcut's icon that is not displayed properly due to the source
of the shortcut being moved or deleted. You may need to recreate a new shortcut directly from the source (ex: program's exe) file to replace it instead.
2- All icons for a specific file extension display the wrong icon. This may be do to setting the wrong association for what program to open the file extension instead. You can restore the default file extension's associations to fix this icon instead.

If you have check that the source icon is not corrupted use this solution:
Windows 7 - Icon Cache - Rebuild from the SevenForum tutorials

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There is a solution posted at a Microsoft forum:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7desktop/thread/fede67d8-0234-48c6-aa71-5a1503d6eaa0/

Step 1: click start>right click on program in start menu>properties>shortcut tab>change icon>browse (navigate to exe for this program)>select exe file>open>select appropriate icon from options shown.>ok>ok>if you get a message saying only an administrator can do this, click continue to apply the change.

Step 2: start a session of the application & while it is running right click the taskbar icon>unpin this program>right click again (shows icon now because it represents the running app, not the shortcut)>Pin this program

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