Windows 7 Program symbols on icons

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Mitchell_A

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• Feb 27, 2010

• #2

Have you performed a clean install of Windows 7, or did you upgrade from Vista?..
Either way, try this:
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fjgold

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• Feb 27, 2010

• #3

Are all your desktop shortcut icons like this?

 

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fjgold

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• Feb 27, 2010

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I wish MS didn't offer a Upgrade path it only seems to cause headaches as opposed to clean installs.
A clean install needn't be real difficult provided you do some planning like backing up data and gathering your app installers
and hardware drivers beforehand.

It's worth the effort especially since the fix for a borked Upgrade might be performing a clean install anyway.
You know the old "Pay me now or Pay me more later" deal.

Sorry for the rant, but I would never consider doing an inplace Upgrade of an OS.

 

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jamesf

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• Mar 11, 2010

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Yes all my destop icons are like this, and this is not a upgrade.

 

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Mitchell_A

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• Mar 12, 2010

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Did my tutorial work?

 

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jamesf

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• Mar 12, 2010

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Nope.. Nothing :/

 

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jeradw

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• Mar 12, 2010

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rats...rebuilding the icon cache would have been my first thought. :/

 

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