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    Weird Icon Problem

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by potentv, Oct 7, 2009.

  1. potentv

    potentv Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi lads,

    I seem to have a really weird problem, I just got a new hard drive so I went and reinstalled everything from scratch so I could update periodically and such.

    Ok, So I installed Adobe CS4, everything is fine. I back up my drive, still no problem.

    Not sure what stage, but my Fireworks icon loses the picture on my desktop, I right click it, in the properties, I see the picture... weird...
    I check the icon in my start menu, same thing...
    I go to the actual program directory, fireworks.exe does not have a picture either... I check properties, and the picture is there...
    I copy pasted the exe, suddenly the picture is there again... I delete original with no icon picture. rename the one with a working icon back to original name and picture disappears again... I was googling very hard and couldnt find a solution.

    So I restored my drive back to the stage just after installing cs4. Restore completes, icons working... Im very happy.
    I installed Flash Player and NVidia Drivers 186.03 so that I can browse, etc and nothing else. Suddenly icon picture is gone again...

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    BTW, Im using Vista 64bit HP
     
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    After incessant googling, I found something...
    I tried deleting iconcache and then restarted. no result.

    I went to change the color from 32bit to 16bit, the icon starts working on all shortcuts and the program. but if I turn it back to 32bit, it stops working...

    Can anyone pls explain this to me, I like 32bit colors :p
     
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    Ok, maybe im stupid but another update.

    I could only get that icon working in 16bit for some reason... not sure why it affects fireworks and not the rest of the suite, but anyway...
    I restarted computer, i change color back to 32bit from 16bit and IT WORKS!!!

    BUT my network icon in system tray disappeared...
    this is starting to get on my ***s
    I restart twice more and doing lots of googling, it got resolved on its own...

    I hope that someone finds this useful but i would still appreciate it if someone more knowledgeable about this could explain what happened....
     
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