I turned my computer on after shutting it (and power strip) down before the first lightning/thunder strike of an electrical storm this morning. Firefox is my default browser and all customized and default Firefox icons for Internet shortcuts on my desktop are fine except one. It's a shortcut from a folder in which all customized Internet shortcut icons have changed to the Microsoft globe (snapshot above). Other folders with Internet shortcuts are displaying the appropriate customized or default Firefox icons.
After making IE my default browser (at which point, all icons temporarily changed to the "e" except for the globe) and changing it back to Firefox didn't work, I followed the steps to rebuild the icon cache (snapshot also above), deleting via Windows Explorer and restarting/rebooting a bunch of times but the icon cache reappears at the same size with only the date/time changed and the globes remain.
When I go into any of the Internet shortcuts' Properties and try to change them manually, they return to being globes immediately after.
I'd be grateful for good advice. :)
Edit: I tried instructions here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/earthglobe-icon-mysteriously-takes-the-place-of/358408ec-906f-4b42-9762-9129075af873?auth=1, however choosing "url.dll" brought IE's "e" and none of the other shortcuts in the afflicted folder changed so I undid it and the globe returned.
Edit: Got IconCache.db down by a few KBs to 5,193 KB earlier but it's grown back to over 5,200 KB again. :uhh:
RESOLVED! I manually rebuilt the Icon Cache using the Command Prompt, as described here: https://malwaretips.com/threads/how-to-rebuild-windows-7-icon-cache.12452/ Globes are gone and customized icons are all back. The new file is 1,672 KB. :D :D
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