Blank white desktop icons on new Windows 7 install
- by SiegeX
I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 professional on my father's Toshiba Satellite laptop and everything went smoothly except for the fact that certain desktop shortcuts appear as a blank white page.
I've tried:
going in and changing the icon to
many different things
reloading the icon cache by deleting
the IconCache.db file
uninstalling his Free AVG as he
heard the virus scanner might be
preventing it (it wasn't and he put
it back.)
The one thing these icons have in common is that they are shortcuts to some very old DOS executables. One of them is Word Star 2000 to give you an idea.
Does anybody have any other suggestions besides what we've tried?