Reseting Windows Vista Icons due to incompatible AlienGUIse.

A while back I tried out Alienware's AlienGUIse Theme Manager (which is powered by MyColours technology by Stardock.) (Alienware: AlienGUIse Theme Manager)

I used it before the Vista-Compatible version came out (now there's a Vista Compatible theme.) and after I tried a theme it caused my system to look weird, so I reseted the theme and uninstalled it.

The problem: My icons seem to have gone a little weird. So far the one's I have really noticed are these:

• The "extra-large" shortcut icons have turned into the old small black and white ones.
• My .txt document icons have turned into an add printer icon
• My .zip icons and bitmap image icon have turned into a generic program icon

How can I reset my Icons?
I have read the rebuild icon cache tutorial and would like to confirm if that is the way to go or if I should use a different method. (So far the 32 to 16 to 32 has not worked) http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/117229-icon-cache-rebuild.html

Thanks a lot.

Hello Hoopla_Punta, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You can give Method One a try in the Icon Cache - Rebuild tutorial to see if you get lucky. It will not hurt anything.


If it has not been to far back a go, you might try doing a System Restore using a restore point dated before you installed the Theme manager program.


If that does not help, then other than reinstallin Vista, you can use the tutorial below to see if changing the file extenstion type icons manually back to their default icons can fix them.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/178915-file-extension-type-icon-change.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

I now have this same problem. My icons and start menu are tiny and my icons are jumbled closely together. Its like the grid that my icons are on has shrank and it raised my resolution to make things look smaller. However, the PC that I have this problem on is a windows XP OS. This is not my PC either, it is a friends who I showed this program to and I feel bad about the problem so a quick fix from someone would be awesome. Thanks!

Hello Xen00b,

Double check to make sure that you are using the native screen resolution for your monitor. Sometimes items will look distored on the monitor if this is not used.

Hope this helps,
Shawn