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Many of my desktop icons changed to Firefox logo, and do not work.

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46Panel
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Many of my icons have recently changed to the Firefox logo. Seems to be mostly icons I have that are shortcuts to web pages that I often go to. I have tried some suggested changes to the Registry, deleting the .lnk line in File Exts, but still not fixed. Please help.

Many of my icons have recently changed to the Firefox logo. Seems to be mostly icons I have that are shortcuts to web pages that I often go to. I have tried some suggested changes to the Registry, deleting the .lnk line in File Exts, but still not fixed. Please help.

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guigs
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I do not know what may have caused this, but I am happy to research troubleshooting steps.

Please change Firefox to the default browser, or change the default then change it back.

In the past this was due to an issue with a registry:

However try to change the default and troubleshoot the settings in your antivirus as well.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can check for issues with the Windows icon cache and try to rebuild the icon cache.

  1. Open the Task Manager (Shift+Ctrl+ESC)
  2. In the Process tab, right-click on the Explorer.exe process and select End Process.
  3. Open the file picker via "File > New Task (Run)" and click the Browse button.
  4. Type or Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local (%LocalAppData%) in the File name field (AppData is a hidden folder).
  5. Select the IconCache.db file and use "Delete" in the right-click context menu to delete the file.
  6. After the IconCache.db file has been deleted, start a new explorer.exe process via "File > New Task" to get the desktop and Taskbar back.

The IconCache.db file is a hidden file, so make sure that you can see hidden files.