Vista - Icon Cache - Rebuild

Yes, but it would be best to uninstall and reinstall it to hopefully reset it as the default program with the correct icons.

Wow its like my computer is up against me!! The Office Enterprise instalation wont run, it says there is a problem and it closes, and it also wont even unistall!! It says uninstall was unsuccesful and every program from office still runds. Interesting is that I can install office visio and web expression aqnd other stuff but cant that. Now I've also discovered some other icons are missing and that theire exe arent even in program files! And my Internet Explorer wont run! It always closes and says it was closed to prevent my computer getting damaged and DEP closed it. And it all happened today! Im rellay freaking out and I'm so pissed on my computer! Its like he is after me!! Help, is there any other way to reinstall office? I really dont know if i would laugh, or cry or be mad...

Marko,

It may be best to backup anything that you do not want to lose, then format and do a clean reinstall of Vista.

Worked fine for me
I fixed .exe file association.
Benn working this for a long time
Thanks.

You're welcome Mdphd, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Hey, so I did what you said, and now all icons are mostly ok, but the Tune up Utillities 2009 dissapeared (after i installed it after the reinstall of vista), and I had to replace some icons in the start menu, and the Office icons are also gone again... But other than that, everything is ok xD Thanks, maybe some other advice on how do I fix those others again except reinstalling which is what I did already?

Mark,

You may need to create new shortcuts for them directly from the program's exe file, then copy and replace the shortcuts in the Start menu with them.

But I said I replaced the icons in the start menu already, is there any way for the files in the office (.docx) to be replaced, cause they are the exe file themselves in some way, cause u click on them to open them... So is there a way?

Mark, the only way that I know of to replace the icons for the .exe itself for this it to uninstall and reinstall the program.

Hi,

I went through your other article about associating files with a particular program but that doesn't solve my issue so hope you can help me out.

Basically I have problems with xml files not showing the correct icon. I have recently installed Dreamweaver CS4 and by default xml files are associated with that program. Dreamweaver has it's own icon for showing xml files but in my case I just see a blank paper icon. I have tried System restore, but that didn't work. I have also tried reinstalling Dreamweaver, that didn't work either. Apparently all other files associated with Dreamweaver e.g .css, .js etc seem to show the proper Dreamweaver icon, it's only xml files that's giving me the problem.

Will your solution about deleting the iconCache.db work in my case or is it just for Vista default icons? Please advise.

Hopefully looking for a quick fix.

Thanks