Corrupted icons

[giannantonio]

Hello everyone,

yesterday I was trying to remove the arrows of shortcut icons with regedit following a guide on internet but i screwed up, now instead of the arrow where it should be there is an empty picture, so how can i remove it?



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[mailpup]

I don't know if I have the answer but what version of Windows is this?

 

[giannantonio]

oh yea sorry, it's vista

 

[example1013]

You succeeded in removing the image of the arrow, from what I can see. However, my best guess is that windows is still trying to display an image there, but can't.

Can you post a link to the guide?

 

[LookinAround]

Don't know if this will work, but easy to try creating a new shortcut icon on your Desktop. Try IE first

Start->Programs-> Look for the IE program entry, rt click Send To Desktop (shortcut)

Does the full icon appear?

 

[giannantonio]

here is the guide i followed

This tweak removes the shortcut arrow

•Click Start, Run and type Regedit.exe
•Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ Shell Icons

•In the right-pane, create a new String value named 29
•Double-click 29 and set its Value data as:
C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,50

(shell32.dll,50 is a empty icon)

•Close Registry Editor.
To apply the changes instantly, follow this

•Right-click Desktop, choose Properties
•Click the Appearance Tab.
•Click Advanced button
•Choose Icon from the drop-down list
•Set it's size to 31 and press OK, OK.
The changes will be applied now. Repeat the above steps and then set the Icon size back to 32 (defaults). The above steps are required to force Windows to redraw the icons.

 

[LookinAround]

Oh. One other thought. If problem persists, and you can't figure out how to restore the registry value, you might try doing a Vista System Restore to a point prior to your regedit

 

[example1013]

Okay, I see the problem. When you changed the registry, you must have somehow put in the wrong icon, because the icon you have is actually the first icon in shell32.dll.

I'll see if I can give you a fix.

 

[example1013]

Okay, I got it to work just fine on my machine. What do you have typed in for your Value data for the string?

 

[example1013]

Okay, I was able to replicate your result a couple of ways so far. Values of:

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll, 50"

both gave me that icon. I'm guessing that

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,0"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll ,50"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll , 50"

would produce the same results. Check to make sure that you don't have the Value mistyped in any of these ways.

 

[tipstir]

Download some icon tools to fix the problem.

TuneUp Utils (this is a trial but you can use it fully)
Tweak Power Pack Pro (this one is freeware now)
IOBIT advance system care has shortcut fixer but the other two are better to fix.

 

[giannantonio]

Okay, I was able to replicate your result a couple of ways so far. Values of:

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll, 50"

both gave me that icon. I'm guessing that

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,0"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll ,50"

and

"C:\\Windows\System32\shell32.dll , 50"

would produce the same results. Check to make sure that you don't have the Value mistyped in any of these ways.

yea thanks it helped, i mistyped and wrote , 50 instead of ,50

now it works

thanks

 

[LookinAround]

@giannantonio
Glad to hear you got it working

@example1013
Nice job :grinthumb

 

[example1013]

No problem, man. Glad I could help!