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I want to change the desktop icon for mozilla firefox.

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StacieR
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The desktop icon changed for Mozilla firefox for some unknown reason and I would like to change it back to the original icon.

The desktop icon changed for Mozilla firefox for some unknown reason and I would like to change it back to the original icon.

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Please see http://www.wikihow.com/Change-or-Create-Desktop-Icons-for-Windows

DISCLAIMER: The above-mentioned URL would take you to a non-Mozilla Web site. Mozilla does not control it and is not responsible for information outside of Mozilla web sites.

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Andrew
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Please see http://www.wikihow.com/Change-or-Create-Desktop-Icons-for-Windows

DISCLAIMER: The above-mentioned URL would take you to a non-Mozilla Web site. Mozilla does not control it and is not responsible for information outside of Mozilla web sites.

cor-el
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Try to rebuild the Windows icon cache.

  1. Open the Task Manager (Shift+Ctrl+ESC)
  2. In the Process tab, right-click on the Explorer.exe process and select End Process.
  3. Open the file picker via "File > New Task (Run)" and click the Browse button.
  4. Type or Paste %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local in the File name field (AppData is a hidden folder).
  5. Select the IconCache.db file and use "Delete" in the right-click context menu to delete the file.
  6. After the IconCache.db file has been deleted, start a new explorer.exe process via "File > New Task" to get the desktop and Taskbar back.

Verify in Windows Explorer that you can see the IconCache.db file before doing the above mentioned steps because the IconCache.db file may be a hidden file.

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

StacieR
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Thank you soo much!!!