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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 01:44 PM
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Weird Windows 7 behaviour
I have several programs pinned to the taskbar. Just today, I noticed that two of them have changed icons to something else. For instance, my shortcut to Shogun: Total War icon is now a Firefox icon, but it still directs to Shogun.

Any ideas? And how do I switch the icon back, without unpinning and repinning?
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canetoad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 04:35 PM
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1. Right click on the pinned icon
Then right click again on the program in the context menu that appears. Check that Properties point to the correct .exe file.
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 07:32 PM
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3. that did it, thanks
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 07:11 PM
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2. Worth a try - rebuild the icon cache.
This has been an issue with Windows versions going all the way back to 95 and maybe even 3.x if I remember correctly.
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-rebuild-the-icon-cache-in-windows-vista/
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 07:33 PM
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4. if it happens again
I'll definitely try this, thanks.
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