I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
and even rebooted but the icon remains the same

Any ideas?
James

Could you be more specific, are you referring to one of the icons that
appear when you hover a link on the right side of the Start menu or do you
mean one of your recently used programs? If its one of the Explorer links, I
think that's off limits. If its a recently used program, try browsing to its
installed directory under Program files and try changing it from there.
--
Best regards,
Andre Da Costa
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]

"JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>
> Any ideas?
> James[/color]

In the Vista Star Menu the items that are pinned to the startr menu
on the LEFT side and when you right click one and select properties
you are able to attempt to change the icon by clicking the Change Icon
button in properties.
Hve had this problem on and off since installing Vista.

James


"Andre Da Costa" <andred25********.com> wrote in message
news:B3E428A3-6E4A-4C6A-8E4A-18FCB33BC746@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Could you be more specific, are you referring to one of the icons that
> appear when you hover a link on the right side of the Start menu or do you
> mean one of your recently used programs? If its one of the Explorer links,
> I think that's off limits. If its a recently used program, try browsing to
> its installed directory under Program files and try changing it from
> there.
> --
> Best regards,
> Andre Da Costa
> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>
> "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
> news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
>> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> James[/color]
>[/color]

I found that if I unpin the item from the start menu and then
pin it back again the item displays the proper icon.


"JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>
> Any ideas?
> James[/color]

Click Start, type CMD, right click it, click 'Run as Administrator', at the
command prompt type SFC /SCANNOW this should attempt to repair corrupted
system files and settings.
--
Best regards,
Andre Da Costa
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]

"JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:eJ4FvebTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> In the Vista Star Menu the items that are pinned to the startr menu
> on the LEFT side and when you right click one and select properties
> you are able to attempt to change the icon by clicking the Change Icon
> button in properties.
> Hve had this problem on and off since installing Vista.
>
> James
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa" <andred25********.com> wrote in message
> news:B3E428A3-6E4A-4C6A-8E4A-18FCB33BC746@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Could you be more specific, are you referring to one of the icons that
>> appear when you hover a link on the right side of the Start menu or do
>> you mean one of your recently used programs? If its one of the Explorer
>> links, I think that's off limits. If its a recently used program, try
>> browsing to its installed directory under Program files and try changing
>> it from there.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Andre Da Costa
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>>
>> "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
>> news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
>>> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>> James[/color]
>>[/color]
>[/color]

Hi James--

Please let us know exactly the steps you have taken and I'll try to tell you
how to change the icon but as Andre says be specific and we can try to help
you.

Use short phrases and > to get this accross and be specific if you are
trying to change an explorer type icon.

I use Right Click of the icon whether it is an Explorer Icon or a 3rd Party
or MSFT icon. I'll elaborate:

I was able to Right Click Start Button>Open All Users or Explore All
users>Right click one of the explorer icons on the left pane that opens
up>and change to any icon available (either the default ones used or the
ones I have from the 3 sources I name below). In the start menu folder that
comes up you can right click for example Default Programs and thave the
System 32 images.dll folder's icons available as default but you can type in
any file path you want (your Favicons folder if you jmake one or you could
go to C:\ (if that's your OS drive)\Program Files\Microsoft Office or
C:\Program Files\Nero to grab icons to exchange or any program you've
installed.

I was able to open up any explorer folder and right click for example
Documents, Pictures, or Music and hit the change icon button in the dialogue
box and change those icons to any icon I navigated to as I've described
above and below.


Apparently you are trying to change the icons on the Start menu from either
MSFT programs or 3rd party programs. I just went to my Start menu and
picked on two icons and changed them to whatever I wanted. I make a folder
that has several hundred icons I collect that I either obtain from typing a
url+adding favicon.ico to a url (not all urls yield an icon and dragggint
the icon to a folder I call favicons and you must change its name when you
do this for it to survive a reboot before it changes to a generic IE "e."
Other sources for icons are Sytem 32 .dlls, folders, and any MSFT program
(like Office) or third party program using the Change Icon dialogue. The
favicon folder I go to when I do that when I want an icon from it from my
collection.

So short version--I had no trouble changing a MSFT program Icon (Win Mail
that's native to Vista) or any of the 3rd party programs on my Start menu to
any icon I could find by going to a program folder, a system 32 folder or
..dll that has icons (many of them) or my Favicon collection I've trolled
from the web. I also go to free icon sites and collect icons from them and
drag them to my favicon folder.

If I have to I can email you pics to nail it for you if that's your email
address below. But you have to tell us two things.

1) Precisely what icon are you trying to change.
2) Exactly what are the steps (every one of them) you're deploying to get it
done.

Thanks and good luck,

CH

"JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:eJ4FvebTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> In the Vista Star Menu the items that are pinned to the startr menu
> on the LEFT side and when you right click one and select properties
> you are able to attempt to change the icon by clicking the Change Icon
> button in properties.
> Hve had this problem on and off since installing Vista.
>
> James
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa" <andred25********.com> wrote in message
> news:B3E428A3-6E4A-4C6A-8E4A-18FCB33BC746@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Could you be more specific, are you referring to one of the icons that
>> appear when you hover a link on the right side of the Start menu or do
>> you mean one of your recently used programs? If its one of the Explorer
>> links, I think that's off limits. If its a recently used program, try
>> browsing to its installed directory under Program files and try changing
>> it from there.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Andre Da Costa
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>>
>> "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
>> news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
>>> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>> James[/color]
>>[/color]
>[/color]

If I understand what I've read, unless I've missed something you said,
Andre has given you a recommendation to run SFC which might repair corrupted
icons. But maybe I'm misunderstanding. I think you just want to change
icons to something you like better. That's fine but what I want you to do
James, is to tell me exactly what the icons are to begin with that are
pinned to the Start menu that you are trying to change if I'm correct in
understanding what you want to get done.

Tell me each and every icon or give me an example of one or two you want to
change and I'll try to show you how to change it.

Thanks,

CH

"JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:eJ4FvebTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> In the Vista Star Menu the items that are pinned to the startr menu
> on the LEFT side and when you right click one and select properties
> you are able to attempt to change the icon by clicking the Change Icon
> button in properties.
> Hve had this problem on and off since installing Vista.
>
> James
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa" <andred25********.com> wrote in message
> news:B3E428A3-6E4A-4C6A-8E4A-18FCB33BC746@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Could you be more specific, are you referring to one of the icons that
>> appear when you hover a link on the right side of the Start menu or do
>> you mean one of your recently used programs? If its one of the Explorer
>> links, I think that's off limits. If its a recently used program, try
>> browsing to its installed directory under Program files and try changing
>> it from there.
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Andre Da Costa
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>>
>> "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
>> news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
>>> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>> James[/color]
>>[/color]
>[/color]

I guess then that you were trying to do what Andre interpretted and get back
to an original icon. I thought you were trying to customize the icon.
Andre's suggestion to use SFC though is always a good remedy for fixing an
awful lot of issues, and is a good one to try--it's never going to hurt you
and can often help.

Good luck,

CH


"JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
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>I found that if I unpin the item from the start menu and then
> pin it back again the item displays the proper icon.
>
>
> "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
> news:ujVZRAbTJHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>I tried to change a start menu item icon several times
>> and even rebooted but the icon remains the same
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> James[/color]
>[/color]