Windows 7 Update Icon Missing
Hi,
if I understand you well, you have a little bit problem with the 'Automatic update' - especially with the notification icon in system tray. The icon does not show in system tray when the updates are ready for instalation - does it ?
Thereis asimilar butopposite problem - system shows the icon of 'Automatic update' in system tray - asthey can beinstalled newupdates, but updates window does not show any updates after click on the icon in system tray:
So, this was solved by deleting the folder 'SoftwareDistribution' in directory 'C:WINDOWS'.
(before deleting was stoped the service 'Windows update').
What you can try:
1) this Fix IT (complete reset Windows Update components - including registration of libraries, renaming the folders ..)
2) install the latest version of the Windows Update Agent (for right comunication with the WWW server of Windows update)
3) only recommend - install the last IE (IE8) (select right language)
4) this diagnostic of Microsoft Genuine Advantage (I hope the WWW pages will be in English)
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- How to fix broken taskbar icons in Windows 7 12 answers
I installed Visual Studio 2012 yesterday and during the install my path somehow got screwed up1. Since then, the icons for applications that are part of Windows are the default 'unknown' icon, but other icons are fine. The applications that the shortcuts link to launch fine when the icons are clicked on.
Taskbar:
Start Menu:
Ultimate ninja storm 4 wiki. I have fixed my path, but the icons still show incorrectly.
Any ideas on how to flush what appears to be a set of cached icons?
1Something took a path of A;B;C;D; and turned it into A;B;C;D;A;B;C;D;E;F; - duplicating a large part of it to that point that no more characters were available to type in the edit box in system properties. This had the side-effect of Windows reporting that it couldn't find %windir%.
adrianbanksadrianbanksmarked as duplicate by nixda, DavidPostill♦, Kevin Panko, Matthew Williams, RaystafarianDec 10 '14 at 13:01
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I have solved the icon issue by:
- Starting the Task Manager
- Ending the explorer.exe process (Right click on explorer.exe -> End process)
- Opening a command line window (File -> New Task (Run..) -> Type cmd.exe)
- In the cmd window type
- Now you need to delete the iconcache.db file
- Exit the cmd window by typing
- Starting the explorer again (File -> New Task (Run..) -> Type explorer.exe)
Now you should be able to see the restored icons.
for me the pin and unpin function of the taskbar did the trick
I eventually solved this by following the advice given here, although not the advice in the article but the advice in one of the comments:
change momentarily the screen color depth to 16 bits, for example, and, when Windows asks you whether you want to keep the changes or not, click 'No' to restore the original settings.
The advice in the main body of the article (about changing the view hidden folders and files setting) didn't work.
adrianbanksadrianbanksI think that loosing the icons is only one of the symptoms of a broader problem, which is that the PATH variable gets messed up. See the following discussion on the VisualStudio forum. The problem seems to be caused by an excesively long PATH variable.
I right-clicked on the item with the missing icon and chose properties. In the properties dialog box I clicked to change the icon. I changed the icon (for example, from the main program icon to the document icon for that program) and pressed OK (I had to have administrator rights to confirm). I then repeated the process to change the icon back, at which point the icon was now visible.