Firefox shortcut icon error after upgrade to 7.0
I've upgrade my Firefox to 7.0 but the shortcut icon is changed not like it used to be but it looked like an installer icon. When I clicked it, it opened Firefox browser just fine without any error. Why did it happen and how to fix it?
Many thanks before.
Okulungisiwe
Isisombululo esikhethiwe
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
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-> Delete the shortcut
-> go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
- right-click firefox.exe to open the context menu -> Send To -> select Desktop (create shortcut)
Check and tell if its working.
Isisombululo Esikhethiwe
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.
I'm sorry mha007, but still the shortcut icon is like the image I attached.
Okulungisiwe
Thank you cor-el, it solves my problem. But I used Windows XP SP2, I found the IconChace.db at %USERPROFILE%\Local\Application Data\.
Thanks again.