kstavert Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 I didn't pay attention to the update of Paint on two of my computers... and, have recently noticed that the icons of a few different programs now shows up as the Paint icon. CAn anyone tell me how to change the icons back? thank you for your assistance Karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 "a few different programs" Okay but which programs? Details are very important Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roly Poly Goblinoli Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 7 hours ago, kstavert said: Can anyone tell me how to change the icons back? When you say paint, you mean paint.net and not microsoft paint, right? In any case, you need to right-click the program file. Go to properties. When it opens, there's a button that says "change icon". You can change the icon back to the original one by browsing for the program's location and using that program's icon, since every program has a default icon associated with it. If it doesn't work, you can try searching Google for something like "windows 7 change file icon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 (edited) Its an anomaly that I've seen before but I would not associate that with Paint.NET. Malware could be something to blame or a faulty Registry key. It can also happen to other programs and make their icons be uniform on all other icons on the Desktop. This video shows a fix for that. Or you can also use System Restore to a date prior to the PDN auto-update and just manually download and install a standalone installer of PDN from the official PDN site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocxhADzHffY Edited January 22, 2017 by Ishi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstavert Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 On 1/21/2017 at 8:32 PM, AnthonyScoffler said: When you say paint, you mean paint.net and not microsoft paint, right? In any case, you need to right-click the program file. Go to properties. When it opens, there's a button that says "change icon". You can change the icon back to the original one by browsing for the program's location and using that program's icon, since every program has a default icon associated with it. If it doesn't work, you can try searching Google for something like "windows 7 change file icon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstavert Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 Hi Using Windows 10 and there is no option to change icon ;( I've not found anything current that tells me how to change the icon back. the two programs that are currently affected are Evernote and Nitro Pro 8 thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 AnthonyScoffler's suggestion should have worked. If it did not, this may help or at least this is what I would do. 1. Uninstall Paint.Net 2. Turn your computer off and reboot 3. Check if your programs have the right icon. 4. Reinstall Paint.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kstavert Posted January 29, 2017 Author Share Posted January 29, 2017 On 1/22/2017 at 7:49 AM, Ishi said: Its an anomaly that I've seen before but I would not associate that with Paint.NET. Malware could be something to blame or a faulty Registry key. It can also happen to other programs and make their icons be uniform on all other icons on the Desktop. This video shows a fix for that. Or you can also use System Restore to a date prior to the PDN auto-update and just manually download and install a standalone installer of PDN from the official PDN site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocxhADzHffY thank you for the video... I'm on Windows 10/64 I right click on the icon / properties / and the "change icon" button is greyed out.. I've googled an answer to this and no answers... I think that I may finally have fixed it (uninstalling and reinstalling Evernote didn't fix the icon issue) I copied the correct icon from another location on my computer and just pasted it into the folders I keep these programs in and deleted the paint.net icon... so far, seems to be working thank you all for your help Kaen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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