The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions.
Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? How do I change the default folder icon in Windows 7? Step 1. Right-click the folder you want to change and select Properties. Step 3: Select one of the many icons listed in the corresponding box and click OK. If you likely have a private connection, for example at home, you can run a virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware.
If you are in an office or on a shared network, you can ask your network administrator to run a scan of any type of network to look for misconfigured or infected devices. Where is the default folder icons? In Windows 7, the user interface includes the taskbar and shortcut lists. What I find useful is that I can just click on it and in Windows Explorer I immediately find myself in the libraries of my folders.
Note that your company may need to right-click it and then right-click it again to access a context menu where customers can select Properties. By default, the target is created at:. Right click on your desktop and select " Refresh ".
I too had mostly generic icons on my Windows 7 desktop, but on the desktop only. My start menu and taskbar were okay. Maybe there are different solutions to this problem, but here's what worked for me:. Last resort to system image restore. I upload the Subfolder that belongs to Office 32bit here, if someone want to test if it works:.
Go to the past versions tab and wait the system to load past versions Then click on properties, click on the change button referring to 'opens with' section and double click on the application you used want to fix. Then click apply and done. If you open windows explorer and browse your document files. They would not have proper icon associate with it. Restore that folder by either download it from my link or from a backup version is the only permanent fix.
I had the same problem as most people here, random disappearance of application icons. When trying to change the icon, it appeared the icon was set correctly, but it still showed the windows default icon. Aesthetically very annoying. Here is something that worked for me. Go to microsoft office-- microsoft office tools-- microsoft office picture manager-- help-- detect and repair-- check restore my shortcuts while repairing. This should restore all the microsoft office shortcuts.
I think the issue is that Acrobat is not good at thumbnails in either 32 or 64 bit environments. I spent two weeks trying to repair and this solution was worked was easier than I thought. I did all the complicated processes and none worked and proved to be as easy in the world. Thank you so much! I wasn't even aware of the restore previous version option in the properties of a folder or file.
After restoring and rebooting, all my office icons returned. I have no idea how this happened in the first place, but I am glad the nightmare is over!
Looking for a fix on the internet for hours now, still havent found anything I have a ScreenShot down belowe with an example of the problem on my picture map. Good lesson for me. I copied the specific directories back to the installer directory, but this didnt solve the issue yet. Note that while I didn't do any steps of his solution, this fellow's suggestion got me thinking. However, system restore kept failing in normal, safe mode, and system recovery mode.
So, what to do? I ended up finding a utility that allows you to mount system restore files in the same way you mount an iso image. Note: It is crucial you choose the most recent installer folder SINCE it was deleted , as this will contain the largest number of files you will end up needing at some point say during uninstallation of anything later , although I'm sure even an aged Installer backup will restore your icons so long as its restore point was made after Office's installation.
After doing this simply tell the computer to open. I know this is an old thread and am too lazy to read all the way through, but I'll post my answer anyway. I moved them back, and boom, fixed. I don't know how to change back the Microsoft Word icon to look like the normal one! This is exactly what's happening to me too! My symptoms: In File Explorer I could not see the correct icons for any applications e. Acrobat or Word or Excel and so on did not show their correct icons and were at some sort of default state so all of the icons looked the same.
I could however see the correct icons for the shortcuts to Outlook, Word, Excel etc. I could not see the correct icons on my Word or Excel etc files on my Desktop. I followed Prem's suggestions from October 28, Certainly read his, or follow along as I took notes a bit differently that may make it easier for you. Somehow the other icons that were broken showed up as well. Dunno, but it worked sweet. Other solutions may work for other users but this worked for me.
It is worth a shot and is pretty low tech. I've had the problem with one or two programs and couldn't fix it myself. Pulling the shortcut directly from the. So the find the exact folder name:. I used this one and it worked fine after trying a few others that did not , this was very simple and fast! Thanks MartaDelia. I hv been googled for this for last three days and tried all suggestions but none of them worked.
Thank you so much CrunchyChewie! I had 6 PC's with this problem. It wasn't just the file association icons either. I used your fix, rebooted, and BAM all them were cured of this issue that has been plaguing me since I upgraded from Windows 7 to I deleted all of the icon caches in the AppData many times.
In fact, I didn't even have to do that after I used your fix. Just rebooted and it must have started adding all of the missing icons right away. I did wait for the computer to fully load in everything in the System Tray too before I even tried to look in any of those places I mentioned above. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums.
Windows 7 User Interface. Sign in to vote. Hi, all of a sudden and for no reason various icons have stopped loading for both the programs and files used by these programs:. Thursday, November 12, AM. Hi, It seems that the file association has been corrupted, I would like to suggest you perform the following steps to reset it. Friday, November 13, AM.
Hi, I would like to suggest you run a System Restore to check the issue. Encyclopedia Brown, Did you perform an upgrade? Run Windows Update to update the Office products. Is your security software a Windows 7 version? If no, remove it or update it and install the Win 7 compatible version.
Your subscription will activate the Win 7 version. I've tried renewing the Icon Cache and running a System Restore to a point before they disappeared and neither of those ideas worked. I repaired the Office icons by creating desktop shortcuts -- but all of my. I believe I have all the updates for these programs. The disappearing seems to be almost at random. Thursday, November 12, PM. I, too, have been experiencing this problem, the random icon that is missing and for which Windows substitutes a default icon.
I've also gone into properties and have reassigned the icon. The icon shows up fine in the selection window, but Windows just doesn't accept it.
It's only a few icons that have this problem. I'm talking about the program icons, not file-association icons. Saturday, November 21, PM. Yep, same here.
New laptop with windows7 home premium x64 and random icon loss. Removed icon cache Darn annoying and it seems no one has a simple explanation or definitive cure. As for it being a file association corruption, i can't see it as the blank icons all open the correct programs.. If I try to change the desktop icon it will work only for that shortcut but the icons in the "all programs" pop up still have generic blank icons and greyed out change icon tabs.
Edited by mandc Sunday, November 29, AM added. Sunday, November 29, AM. I'm having the exact same issue and have tried all of the above solutions with no luck. Friday, December 11, PM. The icons were OK though on the properties tabs of the shortcuts, and I had a greyed out "change icon" option.
Have win7 64bit and office I fixed in in the following way, maybe someone has luck with the same method. I looked at the properties tab the other office icons that remained fine in the same place e. I went there with a file explorer enabling view of hidden and system files. I then dragged the word-shortcut from there into the start menu all programs, microsoft office , then released it. I got a popup saying that source and destination file are the same, and I pressed OK, so I guess nothing actually was copied, BUT, now the proper icon was restored!
Can't explain it, but it worked for me. Proposed as answer by mpdjr Friday, January 21, AM. Wednesday, December 30, AM. I have had this issue come up as well. For example, Microsoft word shortcut icon was not working along with many others. To fix it I went into Start, default programs, associate file types and re-associated.
Nothing happened. So I then manually browsed to the Word application exe file in the programs, Microsoft office, office12, Winword. I then moved that shortcut to the desktop, renamed it and then pined it to the taskbar.
Low and behold all blank icons refreshed and repaired themselves magically. I am fixed, but still do not know why the icons are having this hiccup. Good luck. Wednesday, January 13, AM. To fix this in windows 7, you need to take the following steps: 1. Go to start and click on computer 2. Click on drive "C:" 3.
Double click on the Program Files Folder 4. Double click on the Microsoft Office Folder 5. Double click on the Office12 Folder 6. Scroll down through that folder past the folders at the top, to where you start seeing individual files.
To restore the shortcut you are missing or is corrupted look for the following names for the programs you want. You may type these names into the search box in the upper right to make things easier. Once you have located the program file for the shortcut you are missing, simply right click and select create shortcut. It will say you can not create shortcut here, and would you like to place it on the desktop, click yes.
Go to your desktop, and right click on the new icon, go to rename and rename it to you desired name. Enjoy your new icon and your newly restored proper icon picture! Sunday, January 31, PM. Thank you, but this solves only half the problem :. I'll continue to try to find something Thursday, February 4, PM.
Now, when you right click on a file with a blank icon, you should now get the option "change icon" from your right-click menu. Do the same for every different MS Office File type, ex. Good luck!! I'm having a similar issue, but it is not related to the actual shortcuts. All of my. When selecting that. However, I'm having to change settings in Explorer to show extensions of files so that I can locate certain files.
Listing the folder in details, the documents is noted as a "Microsoft Office Word document Just my icons are different. They were great until a few weeks ago. Suddenly happened. Wednesday, February 10, AM. I too am having issues with my icons dissapearing.
Random icons just suddenly and unexplainedly change to default icons. I first noticed The Google Earth icon and the Agis icon on my desktop had changed. I was able to redirect it to the program exe and the icon reappeard on the desktop icons but the start menu items are still defunct because the Change Icon button is grayed out and doesn't work. Please fix this problem it's quite annoying Monday, February 15, AM. Edited by pydon Saturday, March 6, PM update.
Saturday, March 6, PM. Anyone else confirm this utility works? Proposed as answer by paddybut Tuesday, July 27, PM. Tuesday, April 6, PM. Always seemed to have this issue with 7. You need to increase the cache size and this should get rid of corruption: 1. Reboot and you should be good to go. Monday, April 12, AM. Ok, I dont know alot about computers but this worked for me Saturday, April 17, PM.
Windows 7 Pro. Tuesday, April 20, PM. I confirm, that program did the job. I just installed it and my corrupted icons in the start menu were fixed directly.
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