Vista - Missing Folder Icons

Hi, for some strange reason, I'm missing the default Vista folder icon. They
will only show when set to "Medium Icons" and higher or "Tiles" when
selecting Views in Windows Explorer but will switch to generic icons when set
between "Medium Icons" and "Small Icons" and also "Details". The folder icons
also do not show in the taskbar and in the start menu when clicking "All
Programs". The files seem to be searching for a non-existant icon in
shell32.dll thus showing a generic XP shortcut icon instead of the proper
default Vista folder icon.

There a also quite a few blank icons showing in the shell32.dll file when
selecting an icon but someone on the Neowin forums informed me that many of
the new Vista icons are located in imageres.dll, but I still cannot find the
default Vista folder icon as shown below in the imageres.dll or shell32.dll
files. Any help would be appreciated and maybe if someone could upload their
Vista icon files so maybe that can fix it? Or by any chance, if you right
click on any folder in your C drive and tell me what file and folder icon it
uses?

These are the icons in question:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1...eta21026rd.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/495...eta21060qk.jpg

Here's a few shots I took to show my problem:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6186/explorer3ix.jpg

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6421/startmenu0lv.jpg

I have the same exact problem. But it first occur when I played Nexon mapleStory and then when i got off the game all the icons are invisible.. and i refresh and all the icons are back except the folder... I guess well both wait for a reply with a solution.

hi i was facing the same issue..
worked for 2 days to solve it..
tried to rebuild the icon cache.. no go..
tried to modify desktop.ini.. no go..
tried many mny other things..

n guess what.. i finally found the solution..

i have to edit the shell icon registy values..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>WINDOWS>CURRENT VERSION>EXPLORER>SHELL ICONS

I changed only the values to 0, 1,2,3,4 on a trail basis.

modify 0 and 1 to "C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll,1"
modify 2 to "C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll,10"
modify 3 and 4 to "C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll,3"

restart yo machine..

check n c if it wrks