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We welcome any encouragements you may have, and will be creating more useful technical articles for you. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? I've been having this problem for a while now, Iconpackager, TuneUp Utilities, and deleting the icon cache did not do the trick All my microsoft office files. I am wondering is microsoft even considering this an issue and is trying to fix it or what? If they are is there an ETA or something?

It's really annoying :S. Select the file with the incorrect winword white icon. This properly restored the blank docx icon to the usual Word icon for me. I am totally in the same boat and am really annoyed. For some of my presentations my workplace I'm having to name the files as word.

Sometimes I have even used a different machine to get the correct "pretty" view for my boss's. Extemely annoying and I due hope that something comes up good. I'm wondering if there are some files or logs or whatever that can be viewed by Microsoft for them to even take a look at it. Again, none of the above proposals work on my laptop and I won't be installing any 3rd party app, especially when I see that they are not working correctly. Again I hope that someone even MSFT out there is able to possibly exam any specific files, logs or something.

I found that when you click the backstage button and select "Save as" for a document there is a box to check for save thumbnail. Open an existing document, select save as, check that box, leave the name and file type the same and save. This is in Office and Is that what you want to appear next to the file name? The word doc icon or a preview in the larger icon view? I have had this problem a number of times. It seems to always come back. I have reformatted and started fresh.

But there must be a conflict with some other program that I have running. The problem is still there. I had this problem with Beta and with final release. I would like to know if Microsoft ever plans to fix or if they even know. I have tried all the suggested fixes from this site and others and none work. I do, however, use Revo Uninstaller, and I am wondering if it is the culprit.

The problem is discussed here. Read WindowsStar's response, and follow his link. Uninstalling the patch put the correct icon back. I tried it both ways, deleting the values per the KB, and also restoring them, and there was no affect on the desktop icons for InfoPath and Access that were blanked by their security patches. In fact, on my Win 7 Ent bit, there was no affect on any icons either way. What has made it more interesting is that KB mentions that start menu icons will be defaulted, too.

My start menu icons are intact, it's only the desktop icons that are affected. Running Win7 Vista upgrade and now have all desktop and "Start" menu icons appearing as Adobe Reader symbol, including Symantic, Malwarebytes, etc. Following some advise in this forum, as soon as I changed the target system bar icon, say IE, all the same icons as above change to show the IE symbol. Same for Word. The reason seems to be that icons stored have for some reason disappeared inexplicably?

The solution is also stupidly simple after i've tried every suggestion in this thread. This is a complete fix for the problem and not a work around and I can verify that it worked for me. Good luck all.

Finally a post that makes some sense. Don't bother wasting your time with work-arounds and the flimsy Band-Aids suggested. Soon, you will be pulling your hair out and back to reading this forum. The only other useful bit of information was to increase the Max Cached Icons as posted by CrunchyChewie:. The last suggestion only succeeded in making my problem worse.

Before implementing the above suggestion the icons on my screen were still present and could be clicked on, but most showed as a default icon rather than the icon associated with the program. After following the above instructions ALL of the icons were displayed a different variation of the generic icon.

I peformed system restore to a point before the icon issues occurred and this worked for about a day. Then FireFox installed an update and everything went back to the same icon issue.

I did another system restore and the issue remained. I uninstalled FireFox, rebooted and the issue persisted. I then went into Windows IE 8 and set IE as the default browser and the very second that I set IE 8 as the default, all of the icons magically reappeared.

I think the false icons that are displayed are essentially corrupted shortcut arrows trying to reintroduce themselves. The first indication I got of this possible reason was when I went to desktop, pressed "control" and scrolled down with the mouse. The false icons overlaying the correct icons then reduced in size and took up position where the shortcut arrow normally appears. Hope this works for all out there. This one helped me with same problem.

I had those kind of problem that some shortcuts had missing icons, though when going to their properties - icons were shown, and just changing shortcut icon didn't help. After a restart all icons were back to normal. Okay, this is the only solution that makes any sense.

However , it is not working for me. Same scenario: my Word docx files abruptly displayed different icons this morning. I have tried three or four different fixes, none of which work, and I don't want to dl a third-party program.

These icons are not shortcuts, and I am unable to apply the fix of switching the default program out and then back. I go into the CMD as admin and enter the first two commands. So far so good. So for me it took 2 things, not either on their own worked. And this is a major flaw with windows yet to be fixed, even after Win7 SP1.

After trying what Kring said joins CrunchyChewie and coefficients' solutions, so thanks to them too! The deletion may be due to some malfunctioning or can be by some cleanup utility. To restore the icons you can download the original files which are deleted. The files can be downloaded at below link. You don't need to create account to download files.

Just select slow download option and wait for 60 seconds. After copying the files just restart your system and to get the icon pictures back just select the file like. Right click on the file and select properties then change the open with option to some other program like Adobe then restore back it to Microsoft Office Excel.

I had a similar problem with the desktop icons not working. I made all these "Disabled" with a right click of the mouse and my problem has now gone away. If you have tried to fix this issue using the "delete icon cache" and "max cached icons" methods and still do not have icons try this;.

When the copy is finished close all open folders and return to your Desktop. 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.

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Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Zip, they go back to not loading correctly. Thanks in advance. So, as a last ditch effort I did a Startup Repair und selected a Restore Point. I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit.

Hi, Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Step 1: Start the computer in Safe Mode Safe mode is a troubleshooting option for Windows that starts your computer in a limited state. Please refer to: Start your computer in safe mode Step 2: Perform Clean boot to avoid any third party software conflict. How to perform a clean boot in Windows Note : Refer " How to reset the computer to start normally after clean boot troubleshooting " to reset the computer to start as normal after troubleshooting.

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