[quote who="devilhood" reply="18" id="1861272"]THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Your suggestion fixed all of my blank icon problems... finally I have my system back to normal. I'm never installing Impulse ever again [/quote] I am glad it worked for someone else too! I uninstalled Impulse myself. Things were working fine until then...
[font="Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"]I managed to get all of my icons back again, by first uninstalling IconPackager using Stardock Central (not Impulse) and then going through the registry and manually removing every instance of the word iconpackager. I had restarted Vista after uninstalling the program but there were still a lot of references to it in the registry. I still had no icons after restarting again, so I reinstalled IconPackager 4 using Stardock Central and chose the windows d
[quote]It was an idea. I have XP SP3 and that has worked to solve other similar problems. I'm assuming you didn't have Icon Packager installed at the time you created the new user account?[/quote] I hadn't uninstalled Icon Packager - I was worried I would lose my few remaining icons if I did. I'll have to get used to blank icons I suppose, until something gets fixed. Knock on wood.
[quote]Would someone try creating a fresh administrator's user account in Vista and seeing if all their missing icons are visible there? It could offer a temporary workaround should this work.[/quote] My icons didn't return when I created a new admin account. I can see the correct icon if I right click the shortcut, properties, change icon, but the correct icon is not on the .exe file for most of my files. Also, I cannot change the icon when I right click either. The icon flashes bu
I used IconPackager through Impulse and a lot of my icons have now changed to blank images. Even the shortcut to Impulse! I've changed it to default Windows Icons in IconPackager and repaired, rebuilt etc, but no luck. I am using Vista. Even if I right click, properties, and manually change the icon it doesn't hold. HELP. Thank you. [img]http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l291/cat_karma/Impulse.jpg[/img]