I have the same EXACT issue -- under vista x64 (installed with the new crappy instal app) -- when I tried stardock central this problem did not exist, _BUT_ I just logged in as another user and YES, iconpackager makes alll the desktop icons GENERIC AGAIN!!

I was going to look into rebuilding the icon cache or something to fix this, but I recall having no luck.

 

ANYBODY else have similar experiences!?!

OK, just FYI Opera (latest build) is a perfect trial candidate.  I reinstalled Opera hoping the custom icon for the .exe would return, but for every other user the icon is GENERIC (both the shortcut _and_ the .exe itself).  One thing of note:  the opera shortcut itself would NOT scale properly on the desktop (ie. in Vista when you hold control and scroll the mousewheel the icon would not scale above a certain point).  I don't know what this means, but Opera is a perfect app to check for this behavior!

I uninstalled Iconpackager (thru stardock central) this morning, but had to leave for work -- I'll check later! 

I also pulled a support ticket and reported this post as evidence it's not a one-off problem

(ps. it's disturbing that it makes not just shortcuts, but icons for ALL .exe files generic!!!)

 

Thanks TeeggerToo! I've just built a new box running Vista Ultimate x64. Video card is Radeon HD4850. Yesterday I installed Impulse and rather rashly installed pretty much all of my OD Ultimate apps. The last thing installed was IconPackager 4.10.172. I applied several MyColors themes, then ran WindowBlinds. I can't be sure exactly when it happened, but the icons (desktop, Quick Launch, Start menu - everywhere) for all my 32-bit apps reverted to the default Windows icon.

I tried different themes and then opened IconPackager for the first time, tried the "repair" buttons and changed icon packages. Through all this, the "Spring" theme's shortcut-overlay remained on every desktop icon. Deleting IconCache.db and the Explorer thumbnails followed by a reboot didn't help. My Aero Glass effects stopped working at some stage. Then I uninstalled WB 6, reset MyColors to the Vista default theme and did a reboot. Aero Glass then worked, and the shortcut-overlays for all desktop icons reverted to a large ugly Vista default. The 32-bit-application icons remained as the (blnk) default.

It was possible to repair some of the 32-bit app icons by changing them to something else (anything but the icon that used to be displayed). Once that change was applied and the icon appeared on the desktop (it didn't always change from the default), I went back into the icon properties and set the icon to the correct one. I soon got tired of doing that.

Finding this thread, I uninstalled IconPackager and ALL the application icons immediately self-repaired. The icons on the desktop still have the ugly large shortcut overlays, so I'm trying to figure out how to repair that - but this is a minor issue. You only realise how important the icons are when you loose them

I raised a ticket with Stardock on this issue.

So... any news from Stardock on this very irritating bug? Just now I've discovered I'm not the only one and, even more important, It was not any action on my side that caused this, I'll repeat, very irritating bug!

You guys should really test your new releases better...

p.s.: XP Pro SP3 here.

I'm having what sounds like the exact same problem. Whenever I apply a new icon package all of my application icons get set to the package's default. It looks like the Iconcache.db file gets wiped out. I made a copy of mine before I applied a icon package but was unable to get Windows to use it once I copied it back.

I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

 

Icon Packager is pretty much worthless at this point unless I just want to use default icons. Any word on this?

I've got the same issue too on Vista x64, just started looking for a fix and found this thread.

I'm off to log a support ticket...

Let's try something.  Let's unregister shellext64.dll.

1. From Start –> Run, type “cmd” then click on Open.
   
2. Type “regsvr32 /u shellext64.dll”
   
3. Reboot

Report back what happens

It said the object could not be found.

Additionally, since installing my colours, all my programs keep crashing.

A shame because on XP it all works perfectly.

I'm using Vista home preimum