Program icons don't show

Hi,

I have 2 similar problems on seperate computers.

One computer has windows 7 and the icons for Internet Explorer and Photoshop Elements are represented by the microsoft default icons, not the icons relevant to the programs. I haven't got a clue why. all other programs seem to have their icons just fine.

The other computer has windows vista, and when I add Skype to quick launch the icon gets replaced by the default windows icon, even though the Skype icon is used anywhere else.

I've tried to search for help, but unfortunately the key words are used in about 10 million pages about something completely different, so no luck there...

Does anyone here have any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

Really? I only bought the windows 7 pc a week ago, and it's been like that from about day 1. And the vista one - I only re-installed windows from scratch yesterday and I'm still loading all the windows updates. The malware got in that quickly?

 

Update - I finished installing all the updates, etc. on the Vista computer and now the Skype icon appears correctly, so that problem is solved.

However, the windows 7 computer still lacks correct images for PSE and IE. I'm kind of posting in the hope that someone thinks it may not be malware and there's another possibility. Basically I've only had this computer a week or so, haven't knowingly downloaded anything dodgy and am not seeing any other problems at all, so I am not keen on spending an afternoon going through the malware process when I'm not convinced that it has a problem!

But, if I hear nothing else I may have to... oh what joy.

 

With your Win7 reboot pressing F8 " Advanced user Mode " then scroll down to " Last Known Good Configuration " see if that helps, it takes your PC back to the last time it was working properly !

Other alternative just do a system restore !

 

Another one you can try, click this link http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_No_Yahoo_Toolbar_English_d4191.html download ccleaner slim run ccleaner and then click onto the registry tab of ccleaner and run that too !

Thats if you haven't already got it !