Icons for Firefox missing in Windows Explorer.

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The icons for files associated with Firefox (.html and .htm) have reverted to a generic icon when displayed in Windows Explorer (see image below). If I change the association to Internet Explorer, then the IE icon is properly displayed.

The icon for firefox.exe is properly displayed on the desktop. I have been using FireFox on this computer for over a year with no problems. When I click on an .html file, it still opens properly in FireFox.

Recent actions to my computer are as follows:

Install Adobe Photoshop Elements 9
Install Adobe Premier Elements 9
Install Secunia PSI 2.0
Install this weeks patches to WIN7.

OS: WIN7 Ultimate (64 bit)
FF: version 3.6.13

Any ideas what is causing this?

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It seems that nobody on this board has experienced this problem or has a solution. Any suggestions of any other forums where I may pose this question?

Thanks,
Steve

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Hello, have you considered rebuilding your icon cache for Win 7? You can find instructions

Rebuild Icon Cache

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Hello, have you considered rebuilding your icon cache for Win 7? You can find instructions

Thanks for the suggestion – Yes I have deleted IconCache.db and then let the operating system rebuild it but that did not fix the problem.

Something I failed to mention in my earlier post – I had also upgraded FireFox. Possibly the firefox upgrade caused the problem. For now I’ll live with the problem since it is nothing but cosmetic. I’ll see what happens at the next firefox upgrade.

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Perhaps a system restore to a point before you noticed the difference.

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try deleting cookies

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I found a fix for the problem. Something (possibly one of the recent installs) had added an Icon Handler for Firefox. In the registry I found registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFirefoxHTMLShellExIconHandler was set to {42042206-2D85-11D3-8CFF-005004838597}. I also found registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFirefoxHTMLDefaultIcon was set to %1.

Here is what I did to fix the problem:

1. I deleted registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFirefoxHTMLShellExIconHandler (I completely deleted the key, not just set it to no value).

2. I set registry key to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesFirefoxHTMLDefaultIcon to C:Program Files (x86)Mozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe,1

3. I changed the file association from Firefox to Internet Explorer and then from Internet Explorer back to Firefox.

Now all is functioning properly.

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