Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Changed ICON on WIN 7 taskbar

  • 1 reply
  • 1 has this problem
  • 1 view
  • Last reply by cor-el

SteinWill
SteinWill
more options

My FF icon on the WIN 7 taskbar has changed. It now looks like an standard WIN7 installation icon.. How can I change it back ? It is just anoying...

My FF icon on the WIN 7 taskbar has changed. It now looks like an standard WIN7 installation icon.. How can I change it back ? It is just anoying...

All Replies (1)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

Try to rebuild the Windows 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 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.

Verify in Windows Explorer that you can see the IconCache.db file before doing the above mentioned steps because the IconCache.db file may be a hidden file.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders