icon issues

I'm running Win 7 64bit Home Premium and I have 3 problems that are driving me nuts. The First one: On one of my flash drives I suddenly have three 0 bit files showing up. No names on the files, just symbols. One is like an upside down, backward "L". The other 2 are listed with a "C" with a...

Hi. I have hudge problem whit my HP Notebook and win 7. I wanto connect thru a cable modem but the main problem is in that i dont have a LAN conection icon i olnly have wierless icon but the other icon to connect whit cable i just dont have. How can i fix this problem. Ty

When I receive a new e-mail in any folder (inbox, spam) I don't get the new e-mail envelope icon in the task bar and I don't know how to get it back. I used to get it before and now nothing. I already went to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons and set it to show icons...

Okay I only have a problem with one type of icon and that is the folder icon in my pictures. Here I'll show you: It's the only icon not displaying properly and as you can see it is a couple icons piled on top of each other making a weird looking icon. I have TuneUp Utilities installed and it...

Hello, this icon is broken, how do I get it to look like an actually external HD? It shows up like this on both of my computers running windows 7. Link Removed due to 404 Error

I somehow got my regular .zip file Icon to look like this: .ZIP File Oops... on TwitPic, when it used to look like this: http://www.mypicx.com/thumb/849123859_01302010_1.bmp Here's what I did right before it happened, (I think this caused it.): I right clicked on a .zip file on my desktop and...

Hi. I have W7 Pro and use FF 3.6 browser. I just re-installed FF to clear up a problem I had with it. Now my Taskbar icon for FF is a windows generic icon. The same generic icon for FF is in the Start menu. But on the desktop I have the real FF icon. When I pin the desktop icon to the Taskbar it...

Please help, I do not know why all icons on my desktop and in the taskbar have adopted the W7 windows icon. This has resulted in Internet Explorer starting Media centre instead of IE, only way to start IE is to naviagte through computer/C:/Program Files/Internet Exporer. Thanks in advance.

Hello there, Maybe someone out there can help me. I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. It was a clean install, and it went smoothly. One of my most often used programs, however, is only showing a generic icon. I've tried reinstalling the program and confirming and resetting the...

For several applications the taskbar live preview will stop working. instead of a preview of the window, the icon of the application will appear. if i maximize said window, the preview will be fixed but it will eventually revert back to the icon. any ideas of how to fix this? Link Removed...

:mad:Hi, I think my last post was in the incorrect location..Sorrry if I'm double posting. Drew, Thanks for the Quick Launch, working fine. However, I made a "Short Cut" icon from an excel file from a different hard drive and copied it to the desktop. Then I dragged it to the new "Quick...

Hi, Does anyone know how to decipher the entries in TrayNotify area of the registry? I am working with a program that provides an option to run in the system tray and when selected, it runs in the backgound while its icon is put in the notification area overflow and can be seen when the overflow...

Hi all, whenever I boot into W7RC 64bit, I have to manually make the task manager tray icon "show" each time. I don't know how many bazillion times I have reset this to always show but it never sticks. Anyone with an answer please share: this would be a show stopper for me. The icon...

Last week, the Windows Explorer disappeared, and I could not get it to pin back. I finally found some place that had a check list of items pinned to the taskbar. Explorer was still marked, I unmarked it, closed everything out, (said oh s**t, I'll never find that again), tried successfully to...

Hi everyone, now I am not the most tech-oriented person but I know more than the average person to get around problems and such. Anyways, I upgraded Vista to Win7 last night via a burned installation disk. Everything worked/has been working fine. However when I started up my computer and...

I've noticed over the past few days that my icon for network indicates No Network Available with the warning sign, but I am still connected to the internet and able to function perfectly. Seems odd to me since the other day it was actually not functioning and I had to fix it by using the...

Hi, I installed 7RC from MS, all went fine, I've not done anything unusual in the setup, all updates are installed, graphics ok etc. I created the initial account admin account, then from that a second admin. Changed to that admin account, set it up etc, and created 3 other Standard accounts...

Have installed 7077 and in control panel it say that Defender application is not found. And the icon for defender is not normal. Any idea ?

Hi I am running Windows 7 and everything seems fine appart from the D drive showing a missing icon. The C drive is fine as are the DVD/DVDRW drives its only the D drive. How do you go about replacing this? I had the same problem on Vista and when I installed 7 I thought that would be fixed...

So I just recently upgraded to the latest Windows Live suite version and Messenger has been giving me issues. The new icon is designed in such a way that it will not minimize to the system tray. I looked it up and it was found that by setting the compatibility to Windows Vista then it would...