SOLVED Icons changing

[torin3]

Hey, my icons that are shortcuts seem to be changing, and I'm not sure why:


First they changed from the arrow, to this.

Then after I saved this file, I noticed that several change to two arrows in a circle, and some have red minus symbols on it.

Is this cryptolocker or something else?

 

[torin3]

Crud, I've got to go to work. Some now have speaker icons on them.

I'm shutting this computer down and going to work.

 

[torin3]

I'm at work, and thinking about it a bit more, I wonder if it is a carbonite glitch. When I opened the desktop as a folder, the carbonite dots were there, but none of them show when looking at the desktop directly. Also, I opened a few data files and they opened just fine.

Still shut it off before I left because I'd rather be safe than sorry.

So, does anybody have any idea what is going on?

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Oh god, I pray it's not cryptolocker buddy

Might just be the icon cache too: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

I have a batch file to copy a small text doc (to stop my WD greens from parking their heads, the load/unload count is 85,000+ after a few months! ) but it showed up as the F@H client

My icon cache was missing somehow, and a reboot rebuilt it and all icons are normal now.

Can't hurt to try it.

 

[torin3]

If it is just the icons getting screwed up, and not really a serious problem, would something like this be worth trying?

http://winaero.com/download.php?view.39

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

If it is just the icons getting screwed up, and not really a serious problem, would something like this be worth trying?

http://winaero.com/download.php?view.39

You can try it, in fact I'm downloading it now

I'll let you know what it actually can do.


EDIT: Okay yeah, that's actually pretty neat!
It changes all the icons to what every you select:

Notice the little arrow right?:


Now after I click "Classic Shortcut":


Then we can remove the arrow entirely!:


Yeah, torin3 try it out, like you said it might just be some glitch.

 

[torin3]

Well, when I got home and booted up, all the shortcut arrows were back. The carbonite status dots took about 10 minutes to come back. So, I think carbonite managed to accidentally corrupt the icon cache. Rebooting fixed it.

I'll go ahead and download it because I like the smaller arrows anyway. And it will probably be good to have on hand to repair it if it goes bad again.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Glad it's fixed!