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Shortcut icon replaced by windows file icon after installing 3.6.12 version

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btri
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using W7. After installing version 3.6.12 and changing the persona i noticed that the mozilla icon on the task bar was replaced by a windows file icon.

using W7. After installing version 3.6.12 and changing the persona i noticed that the mozilla icon on the task bar was replaced by a windows file icon.

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cor-el
cor-el
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You can try to reset the Windows icon cache.

  • Open the Task Manager (Shift+Ctrl+ESC)
  • In the Process tab, right-click on the Explorer.exe process and select End Process.
  • Open the file picker via "File > New Task (Run)" and click the Browse button.
  • Type or Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local in the File name field (AppData is a hidden folder).
  • Select the file IconCache.db and use Delete in the right-click context menu to delete the file.
  • After the IconCache.db has been deleted, start a new explorer.exe process via "File > New Task" to get the desktop and Taskbar back.
  • It is possible that the file IconCache.db is a hidden file and in that case you need to enable viewing hidden files. You can verify that you can see the file before doing the above mentioned steps.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders

btri
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Thanks for the reply but I SOLVED the problem with the usual simple way: I uninstalled mozilla and then reinstalled. It works fine now.