Application icon disappears from Taskbar & Startmenu in Windows 7

Question

I just installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate and the first thing I load is always Firefox. This time, however, it appears that Windows cannot locate the program icons for the links in the Start Menu or Taskbar.

I tried uninstalling/reinstalling Firefox, but to no avail. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try rebuilding the icon cache db. Open a command prompt session and type in the following:

1. Type cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
2. Click OK
3. Type attrib –h IconCache.db
4. Click OK
5. Type del IconCache.db
6. Click OK
7. Type start explorer
8. Click OK.

Answer 2

Have you seen this one http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/05/story-of-windows-7-and-empty-all.html