Pengu Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 So when I got Paint.NET it replaced my Adobe Reader icon. Not the icon on my desktop, the icon that appears when it's open(along the bottom). It's like this for a couple programs. How can I fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishi Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 You mean the Paint.NET icon had replaced some of the icons that are pinned on your Taskbar, including some belonging to programs that have nothing to do with Paint.NET? In that case, its suspicious, worse, it could be a malware infection. Make sure you have downloaded your copy of Paint.NET from a trustworthy site. http://www.getpaint.net/download.html I would try a system restore in your case. Try doing system restore to a date before this started happening.. http://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-System-Restore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanP Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Ha, I've been experiencing a similar thing for the last couple of weeks/months, where icons in Rocketdock are randomly replaced with the PdN icon. Of course Rocketdock is a pretty ancient program that is no longer maintained and things were always easily fixed by bringing up the Icon options dialogue, but still .... intriguing. If I daresay: could it be related to PdN v4 alfa's and beta's? Mine is: W8.1 with all latest updates Well protected against malware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Rocketdock I believe we have found the culprit. Rocketdock has had some notorious issues in the past, related and unrelated to PdN. The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pengu Posted February 27, 2014 Author Share Posted February 27, 2014 I don't have Rocketdock and this is happening on two of my computers. I have also downloaded PDN from this site too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 Do you mean the file is being associated with Paint.NET? That means file associations are messed up. To correct the file association, see post #4 in this thread: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18309-file-associations/ ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanP Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) See sceencapture of an example where the OneNote icon in RocketDock has been replaced by the PdN icon.Of course it's easy to blame RocketDock. After all it's old, no longer maintained and it does have its peculiarities.But this this has come up on and off since recently.Is it related to Paint.net v4, some Windows 8.1 update, Rocketdock getting lost on its icons, ...?I cannot tell, but I think it suspicious that it's always the PdN icon that is the replacing icon. Edit 3/3/2014 - Added second screenshot demonstrating another occurrance of the phenomenon Edited March 3, 2014 by StephanP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 (edited) Curiouser and curiouser! Since I downloaded v4 on my laptop, all my images are opening in PS . Edit: Now fixed . But, 'twas curious - perhaps it was caused when playing around with Custom Brushes Mini. Edited March 2, 2014 by Pixey How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 See sceencapture of an example where the OneNote icon in RocketDock has been replaced by the PdN icon. Of course it's easy to blame RocketDock. After all it's old, no longer maintained and it does have its peculiarities. But this this has come up on and off since recently. Is it related to Paint.net v4, some Windows 8.1 update, Rocketdock getting lost on its icons, ...? I cannot tell, but I think it suspicious that it's always the PdN icon that is the replacing icon. Edit 3/3/2014 - Added second screenshot demonstrating another occurrance of the phenomenon As you note, RocketDock is no longer maintained, and I remember some problems arising in Paint.NET because of it even back when it was being maintained. Rick can't maintain compatibility with every old, dead program and still manage to release new features. The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacym Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Not sure what this RocketDock is, but I've been having this issue as well. The icons in the task bar are turning to the Paint.Net icon for some programs. Just recently, the newly released Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, but there are others as well. It's making it quite difficult to find programs in my task bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted May 2, 2015 Share Posted May 2, 2015 Welcome lacym. Please repost your problem in it's own thread, including a screenshot if possible. This thread is over a year old. Thanks. ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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