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Office 2010 icons not showing up?!?


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Hi I have a weird problem. Basically half of my icons for Office 2010 don't display properly on my desktop, or in the Win 7 Taskbar. I mean the shortcuts are there, but they are just blank white squares with a smaller square graphic inside them, like the ones you get when there is no icon associated with a shortcut. I've tried right clicking on them and selecting 'properties', but there is no option to change the graphic for the icon, so I can't change it back to what it was originally.

Any suggestions?

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Any suggestions?

I get that once in a long while, purging the icon cache usually does the trick. If you want different icons you'll need to re-create the shortcuts yourself as they're not linked to the executable.

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have you tried rebuilding your icon cache?

edit it won't let me copy the link.

How to rebuild icon cache:

1. Close and save anything that you are working on. This command will kill explorer and restart the computer when completed.

2. Open the Start Menu, and type cmd in the search box and press enter.

3. In the command prompt, Copy and Paste each command line below exactly as is and press enter after each command.

WARNING: The last command will restart the computer, so be sure to close and save anything that you are working on first.

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F

CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

DEL IconCache.db /a

start explorer.exe

4. The IconCache.db file has now been rebuilt.

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