Office icons dissapear in Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-10-22T19:03:52+00:00

why do my Office 07 icons keep disappearing in windows 7?

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Anonymous
2009-11-19T20:30:26+00:00

This has happened to me as well and was corrected by viewing the properties from the desktop folder.  Once I clicked on the change icon button and canceled the action all the icons for the Office 2007 programs and files were restored, including the taskbar pins.

Reinstalling the programs would not fix the problem from happening again IMO, and not an appropriate solution.

Gor

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-28T02:18:19+00:00

    I have the same problem as you and after searching for a day for a definitive solution, i have found this one that works on another forum located here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

    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.

    1. go to start menu and search for: cmd
    2. right click on cmd and choose "run as administrator" (--> this causes command line to change from C:\users<account name> to change to: C:\windows\system32).
    3. turn off everything you are doing after saving your work because now you will be closing explorer.exe
    4. in the command line enter each command separately and with enter following each line
    • taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
    • CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
    • DEL IconCache.db /a
    • shutdown /r
    1. after the restart, everything should be back to normal.

    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. Theres no need to grab a copy of the folder off of another computer

    also, this is a repost of my post on another thread. hope it works for you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-10-13T08:19:02+00:00

    Thanks a lot ! It works perfectly on Win 7 x64. I don't copy the folder from another machine , just deleted iconcache.db and excel icon came back.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-10-04T16:29:39+00:00

    Execute the below exe

    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\ offdiag.exe

    It should fix the problem.

    fix my office 2007 icon issues.. thanx a lot

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