I've got a bunch of game shortcuts on my desktop in a hidden Fence, all going to my E: drive. A bunch of them went off for some reason and I can't quite figure out why...* Either they're showing a blank Windows icon (*.lnk) or a globe icon (*.url).* If I right click on them and go to Properties, the Shortcut tab is now missing.* I cannot delete the shortcut icons, as it says I need permission to delete the file.Not all of the icons/shortcuts have been affected! About 8 of the 23 are fine. It seems that the affected games are either Steam games or just installed on that drive. Games that were bought through Impulse seem okay, as well as my Starcraft 2 and Devil May Cry 4 shortcuts.
In the past, when I've gone to that fence the icons would all be blank, then would change to their normal selves after a second (I guess as it hit the e: drive to see what's what). I've tried looking up different things about icon corruption and such, but to no avail. Everything I've tried has not worked yet. I've tried rebuilding the icon cache two different ways, I've done error checking on the harddrives, and I'm really not sure what to do at this point.Help!
I am using Fences Pro, Windowblinds, Deskscapes, and Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium.
What happens if you delete the icon from the desktop then have Steam recreate them?
I can't delete the icons at all. I'm told that I don't have permission/authorization.
edit: One of the technical forums I go to is telling me to uninstall all my Stardock goodness. Obviously, I'd rather not!
Ah! I remembered something - selected all the icons, held control? shift? and dragged to the recycle bin. Icons gone!
I uninstalled Fences Pro then reinstalled as well.
Still no idea what happened, but hopefully it won't happen again @_@
Is there any information I can try and dig up that would help you guys for future reference?
Sounds like your icon cache was corrupt. Here is a place you can go with instructions as to how to fix that problem:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-rebuild-the-icon-cache-in-windows-vista/
Their instructions miss this folder, clear out this one as well before restarting Explorer:
Do the same for this folder C:\Users\[USERNAME]\appdata\local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
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