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Title: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: zachl3 on October 28, 2007, 04:15:30 PM

Having some issues any help is appreciated...please refer to this post to see the problems I am having: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,44808.0.html Thanks

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: SuperDave on October 28, 2007, 05:10:24 PM

Tweak UI claims to be able to repair broken icons.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: patio on October 28, 2007, 05:14:26 PM

Quote from: SuperDave on October 28, 2007, 05:10:24 PM

Tweak UI claims to be able to repair broken icons.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

It's not ready for Vista... crashed all 3 times i tried it.

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: Broni on October 28, 2007, 07:31:01 PM

There is a free version of "TweakVI" here:
http://www.tweakvi.com/
I downloaded it the other day, but I didn't play much with it, yet.

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: zachl3 on October 28, 2007, 09:37:13 PM

I downloaded the free version of the program but couldn't figure out how to repair icons with it. Has anybody done this before and can help? Thanks so much

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: Broni on October 28, 2007, 09:52:21 PM

This is how to rebuild Vista's icons:
http://xenomorph.net/microsoft-windows/windows-vista/force-vista-to-rebuild-icons/

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: Broni on October 28, 2007, 09:54:46 PM

...and patio...
If you want to try some experiment about XP TweakUI working in Vista, you may check this site:
http://www.codejacked.com/a-tweakui-for-vista/
scroll down to:
n8barber wrote:

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: patio on October 29, 2007, 12:42:14 AM

Worked fine the first time...broken after shutdown and re-boot.
 :(

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: zachl3 on October 29, 2007, 08:36:35 AM

I tried to fix using the command prompt to delete iconcache.db but when I am in command prompt and type \AppData\Local it tells me "The system cannot find the path specified" Any suggestions?

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: Broni on October 29, 2007, 04:15:13 PM

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and type \AppData\Local

You have to type in a WHOLE path:
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local>
Doesn't it say that?

patio...sorry, it didn't work. Did you try that TweakIV?

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: zachl3 on October 29, 2007, 06:38:08 PM

When I start command prompt it already has C:\Users\MyName>

Title: Re: Windows vista not responding when saving/opening document and broken icons
Post by: Broni on October 29, 2007, 07:16:44 PM

Oh, OK...I forgot...
At
C:\Users\MyName>
you have to type in:
cd AppData\Local
Hit Enter.