I have a strange problem. My icons seem to disappear randomly on my Windows 7. They were there a while back, now they ain't.
It happens often and quite randomly. Anyone know a fix?
I have a strange problem. My icons seem to disappear randomly on my Windows 7. They were there a while back, now they ain't.
It happens often and quite randomly. Anyone know a fix?
I figured it out. Here's the answer:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
After that
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local
"Or try this solution that always works for me:
open cmd-console in admin mode
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
start explorer.exe via taskmanager
Edit 2016-05-07: Easiest solution: Link
I found the cause of the misteriously disappearing Windows 7 desktop icons and the reason why Show desktop icons now and then gets unchecked.
It’s INFRARECORDER !! Try for yourselves, when you start Infrarecorder and close it again, go have a look at “Show desktop icons”, it is unchecked (but the icons are still there). Check it on again and start Infrarecorder…. it is unchecked again.
This Windows 7 “bug” is irritating me since the beginning and now I found the cause: It’s Infrarecorder which is causing this problem.
Test it, please let me know and spread the news :-)
Assuming that the paths are still valid, try right clicking on the shortcuts and go to the "shortcut" tab. Click on the change icon button, and see if the icon you want is in the list (if there is any list at all).
I don't know why Windows is losing track of the icon (It's happened to me a few times), but hopefully this will provide a workaround.
It could also be that your C:\Windows\Installer folder is empty. In this folder Office or Windows Live software installs its icons and stuff...
When this is the case, you can try to copy the {...}-folders (with some kind of identity) to your own machine.
Edit: Added a link to a forum-post: http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/49813-microsoft-office-2010-icons-missing.html
Microsoft Fix It service solves this problem without any editing work. Get it from here. It worked well for me. This service finds the problems and troubleshoots them.
You can easily bring all the icons on the desktop as described in the following: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3659-desktop-items-hide-show.html
Yes, it is tru, it is an InfraRecorder that makes them disappear.
I'm on Windows 7 Professional, and have been struggling with this frustrating problem for a while now. I have tried the solution recommended here, and increasing the max cached icons seemed to fix it for a while, then the problem came back.
I finally mentioned it to my co-workers, and one of them said I should check my Windows PATH, and shorten it if it's very long. It turns out the system PATH was over 2500 bytes in length! I removed a lot of cruft and brought it down to about 1k in size, and voila! The problem has not appeared since.