Re: Icons no longer produce image

From: Drake (Drake_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:56:27 -0600

"Kelly" <kelly@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:e3L8pxc2EHA.2592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Depends....
>
> 1. Which viewer are you using?

Perhaps an example: I have several quick launch shortcuts. Say I change the
"W" icon normally associated with MS Word to an "M" out of my "third party"
icons. Everything is fine for years, but one day, the "M" is gone, and in
its place is a generic windows icon (somewhat similar to the old Program
Manager icon in win 3.1). In fact, the entire third party icons folder has
been effected in the same way. None of the icons are what they're supposed
to be (as in the example, "M", or a coffee pot, or a TV, or a clock...you
get the idea). They are all now the "generic" icon I described previously.

> 2. Which editor are you using?

N/A

> 3. Is this a typical temp folder issue?

No, it's an icon display issue, but only my third party icons are affected.
All the normal windows icons are fine.

> More info needed.....

I hope this suffices.

Thanks!
 Drake

>
> --
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> Kelly (MS-MVP)
>
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>
> "Drake" <Drake@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%23jgORJc2EHA.2608@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>I have a folder of Icons that I obtained years ago. I use these icons to
>>create shortcuts for various programs. Recently, I discovered that the
>>icons no longer have their original "image". In place of the "image" is a
>>generic system icon. This has affected all the icons in that folder (about
>>200).
>>
>> I have the same folder of icons on another machine. They work fine on
>> that machine. The properties of the icon are the same on both machines. I
>> tried renaming the icon folder on the problem machine and recopying the
>> the icon folder from the "working" machine to the problem machine. The
>> newly copied files behave exactly the same: Broken. I also tried the
>> Repair icons function in TweakUI. No go. I also tried copying to another
>> partition. Still no go.
>>
>> All other icons (the normal windows icons) are fine. I'm at a loss. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Drake
>>
>
>

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