control panel and printer and faxes icons disappeared!

Discussion in 'Software' started by mcadam, Oct 8, 2004.

  1. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    HELP!!!! In my start menu, the control panel and printers and faxes shortcut icons have been changed to the normal yellow folder and when I open control panel the printers and faxes icon has changed to the white icon when the file type is unknown. this also is the case when i click on the control panel icon on the left in my computer.
    anyone know how to resolve this??!!
     
    mcadam, Oct 8, 2004
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  2. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    anyone?
     
    mcadam, Oct 9, 2004
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  3. tweeky D

    tweeky D Private E-2

    Hi..

    you will be honoured to know that this is my first posting on this site! :cool: ... well anyway!
    The icons that you refer to cannot be changed easily to alternative ones.. so I think you have a problem with the .dll that these icons are found in, I would suggest that using 'explorer' you go to Win.../system32 and look for 'shell32.dll' this is where the icons for control panel and printer (amongst many others) are stored... you cannot open this file in explorer to see if all is well... you are simply verifying that the .dll is present. If it is not, you will need to run the 'system file checker' ... just occured to me!... you are running Win XP??? If the file is present I will continue to brainstorm and find a way to re-assign the icons... please give more info in your next posting!... hope any of this helps! :)
     
    tweeky D, Oct 9, 2004
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  4. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    ok yes i'm running xp pro with service pack 2, and shell32.dll is there. this is really weird because i clicked start to open internet browser a few days ago and the icons were randomly not there!!! any ideas?
     
    mcadam, Oct 9, 2004
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  5. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    o, and i've just noticed that the internet explorer icon that comes up next to the address in the adress bar in I.E. is the picture for an unknow application...
    there must be some icon problem with my computer!!!!
     
    mcadam, Oct 10, 2004
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  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    one thing to try is the Repair function of Powertoys for XP ( the tweakUI module ) it has an option for repairing icons, bare in mind if you have changed any icons yourself these will be reset to default icons.

    Powertoys for XP
    http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=710

    install the TweakUI module and once run the repair option is at the bottom of the menu.
     
    DavidGP, Oct 10, 2004
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  7. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    thanks for your help halo, but the control panel, printers and faxes and internet icon in address bar are still not correct!
    any more ideas?
     
    mcadam, Oct 10, 2004
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  8. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    I just dug up this post as I'm having the problem again!!! Tried the repair in powertoys for xp but still nothing, any ideas??
     
    mcadam, Jan 2, 2005
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  9. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    Please someone must know!!!
     
    mcadam, Jan 3, 2005
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  10. elementkid07

    elementkid07 Private First Class

    uninstall sp2 thats prob ur problem
     
    elementkid07, Jan 4, 2005
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  11. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    Haven't got it installed.
     
    mcadam, Jan 4, 2005
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  12. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    can you post a screenshot of your Control Panel window?

    Have you at any point used a program to change system or folder icons... what i'm thinking is that your shell32.dll file is a bit corrupted!?!
     
    DavidGP, Jan 4, 2005
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  13. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    OK I've played around with themes and visual styles, one theme changed the my computer, control panel, recycle bin and network places icon but I've uninstalled that now as I no longer wanted it. Here are 2 screenshots, one showing my start menu and the other my control panel, as requested.
     
    mcadam, Jan 4, 2005
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  14. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Try this app its similar to TweakUI and its repair function but does alot more besides, the options you want are the Rebuild Icon Cache and Restore Windows Icons.

    Do the Rebuild Icon Cache first then Restore Windows Icons from the Options Icon which is the Hammer and Screwdriver icons at top menu.

    http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/download.html


    was the app you used StyleXP or another TGSoft app?
     
    DavidGP, Jan 4, 2005
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  15. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    Hey it worked! Thanks very much halo you are truely a genius!

    I think it was StyleXp that name rings a bell.
    Thanks again!
     
    mcadam, Jan 4, 2005
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  16. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    your most welcome, yeah I do remember StyleXP screwing up some icons if you uninstalled before restoring the default XP icons, glad that program worked, its quite a powerful icon app is iphile.
     
    DavidGP, Jan 4, 2005
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