Comments on: Icon screwup in WinXP?

Question: Icon screwup in WinXP?

grumblebee — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:02:26 -0800

When I booted up my WinXP laptop tonight, I noticed that the psds (Photoshop documents) on my desktop all had screwed up icons. In fact, each one had a totally different icon, and none of them were the Photoshop icon! What's the deal? (Screenshot.). The icons for all my other documents (non-psds) are normal.

By: fishfucker

fishfucker — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:50:47 -0800

uh, is it a preview?

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:06:08 -0800

No. Those images are all photos. They look nothing like the icons. That icon of the little barcode with legs is like nothing I've ever seen before in my life!

By: kickingtheground

kickingtheground — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:10:52 -0800

Sometimes icons in windows get corrupted. You can repair them by downloading Tweak UI, where there's an option in the repair section called "rebuild icons."

By: birdherder

birdherder — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:14:57 -0800

Whenever that happened to me, rebooting would fix it. I'm sure you've done that already.

If it still is doing give you random icons on the PSD files, then try right clicking on one of them with the shift key held down and select 'open with' and then select photoshop.exe from the list. [I think that's how it works, I switched to OS X so my XP skills are getting rusty].

By: armoured-ant

armoured-ant — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:37:22 -0800

That's your Windows Icon Cache getting pissy. Download TweakUI like kickingtheground suggested.