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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

I can access firefox just fine but the icon on my desktop changed from the regular icon. How do I fix it?

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The original icon showed up on my desktop after I downloaded firefox but then it changed to something else.

The original icon showed up on my desktop after I downloaded firefox but then it changed to something else.

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Try to reset the Windows icon cache.

  • Open the Task Manager (Shift+Ctrl+ESC)
  • In the Process tab, right-click on the Explorer.exe process and select End Process.
  • Open the file picker via "File > New Task (Run)" and click the Browse button.
  • Type or Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local in the File name field (AppData is a hidden folder).
  • Select the file IconCache.db and use Delete in the right-click context menu to delete the file.
  • After the IconCache.db has been deleted, start a new explorer.exe process via "File > New Task" to get the desktop and Taskbar back.
  • It is possible that the file IconCache.db is a hidden file and in that case you need to enable viewing hidden files. You can verify that you can see the file before doing the above mentioned steps.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders


http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-rebuild-the-icon-cache-in-windows-vista/