Acronis Icon missing from shortcuts
My shortcuts (on Desktop, taskbar, StartMenu, etc.) for ATIH2017's TrueImageLauncher.exe display a generic Windows Icon. It's a new Win7Pro3bit install; at first all was well.
I've tried the various fixes in https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-home-forum-older-versions/icon-true-image-home-2010-missing-start-menu including changing the icon to that of other exe files, and letting Windows rebuild the IconCache.db (including the command line method at http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-the-icon-cache-windows).
Nothing worked. My file manager can display the icon for all the files correctly, but this (and only this) shortcut can't.
One idea: does anyone have an .ico file or .dll with the ATIH Home icon (I could try putting in the System32 folder)? Or can I instead use a shortcut to ATIH2017's TrueImage.exe (that displays the ATIH icon fine; and no, using it's icon in the Launcher shortcut didn't work)....in other words do I even want to use the Launcher?


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Thank you very much Steve, I'll try a Repair Install (of ATIH 2017).
(I already tried pinning the Launcher's shortcut to the taskbar and Start Menu and Desktop.)
If that doesn't work I guess I'll just live with the generic icon (because I just tried adding an icon from %windir%\explorer.exe and even that failed to display.
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The Repair Install worked perfectly. Thank you very much Steve!
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Glad to hear that, thanks for the feedback.
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Now a day later it's UN-fixed.
I can't decide whether to Un/Re-install ATIH2017 or to simply live with it.
Thankfully this is the only program I have that can't manage to display an icon (on this PC; on my other Win8.1 PC ATIH2018's icon is AOK...so far).
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Strange...! Not seen any issues on my own computers running either 2017 or 2018 that I am aware of, but that is not to say I haven't seen a similar issue with other programs losing their icons but working fine otherwise. This seems to have been an issue across a number of Windows versions from Vista onwards - hence lots of hits on rebuilding the icon cache when searching on this topic.
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I was thinking I might eventually try a repeat Repair Install, but...
Here's a little program that now again fixed it (so far anyway) faster than a Repair Install:
https://github.com/crazy-max/IconsRefresh
I inadvertently ran it AFTER I'd (yet again) deleted IconCache.db, and had to reboot (since it's attempt to refresh them made all my icons disappear).
Before I tried THAT suggestion from http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-the-icon-cache-windows I tried editing IconCache.db but I gave up on THAT when https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/releases asked for an encryption key password for IconCache.db (!) and my Windows admin password didn't work.
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