Microsoft Office and Adobe associated file icons turned generic

lexical · 08-03-2008, 11:19 AM

Okay, so what I've done recently was that I cloned my old HDD so that I can use my new raptor as the primary and have the old one as the backup (this was all while I had XP SP3). The files associated to MS Office and Adobe (.doc, .xls, .docx, .pdf, etc.) turned into generic icons.

Afterwards, I then upgraded to Vista Ultimate SP1, but unfortunately the problem carried over. I searched for this over other forums and they told me to delete IconCache.db in ~/Users/[User name]/AppData/Local/

I deleted it in hopes of the system recreating the file and the icons will be restored. The system did recreate the file, but unfortunately the icons are still generic. I'm at a loss of ideas, so please help me out!

System Specs:
E8400
Asus P5K-e
4gb OCZ Reapers
9800 GTX
Raptor & Caviar HDD

lexical · 08-06-2008, 03:31 PM

maaan nobody knows the answer to this? Worst case scenario is that I reformat, but I'm just trying to find out an easier alternative

08-06-2008, 03:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
lexical Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2 OS: Vista Ultimate SP1 (Upgrade) My System	Re: Microsoft Office and Adobe associated file icons turned generic maaan nobody knows the answer to this? Worst case scenario is that I reformat, but I'm just trying to find out an easier alternative