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Update: I ran sfc /verifyonly and it found no problems so I tried a system restore. Running it from windows, it reported to could not complete. I ran it in safe mode and it reported that it could not complete, but whatever it was able to do it brought the icons back. It also took away my...

Thanks so much for your help. Here's the information you asked for. The shortcuts work but the icons on the taskbar to the left of the notification area are missing. I can pin a shortcut to the taskbar and it works immediately but doesn't remain on a reboot (though the shortcut still works on...

Thanks, Kemical and Neemobeer. Neemobeer - I rebuilt the db files properly, making sure explorer.exe was not running. Kemical - I've had trouble with built-in windows utilities in the past (they often end up changing my settings) and think the simplest thing to do is overwrite the messed up...

I'm running Win7 Pro 64-bit. Icons on my taskbar to the left of the notification area no longer show up. (The icons in the notification area are displayed.) I recreated iconcache.db and replaced iconcache.db with a backup made before the problem began but neither fixed the problem. All the...