Visual Studio 2008 Professional's Icon not showing!

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:12 pm

Well, I renamed the main exe of Visual Studio to something else and then I renamed it back to what it was before and the icon no longer shows. Any ideas on how to make it show again?

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:30 pm

Restart your computer?

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:32 pm

Aumaan Anubis wrote:Restart your computer?

Tried it, didn't work.

Ghostlypickel · Post by **Ghostlypickel** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:59 pm

Right click it>Properties>Shortcut> Change Icon. Look around might be in there.

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Tue May 20, 2008 8:14 pm

did you make it a .exe again? just asking because some items on your screen show the endings.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:59 am

Take a Resource Hacker and look if the icon is still embedded.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Wed May 21, 2008 11:22 am

Ghostlypickel wrote:Right click it>Properties>Shortcut> Change Icon. Look around might be in there.

I own Vista...

Patrickssj6 wrote:Take a Resource Hacker and look if the icon is still embedded.

It is.

Ok, I fixed it be just putting .exe at the end of the name. It is odd because it would open just fine before, but it shows again, so problem solved!

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:14 pm

Odd, vista usually doesn't let you rename the .exe.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:34 pm

Cryticfarm wrote:Odd, vista usually doesn't let you rename the .exe.

The full file name is now derenv.exe.exe. I just added another exe and it works.

Ghostlypickel · Post by **Ghostlypickel** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:16 pm

May I ask why you renamed it?

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:20 pm

When I run it as administrator, I didn't like it saying "derenv.exe" so I thought renaming it to Visual Studio would be a more fitting name.

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:32 pm

Lol. Oh yeah, i solved the problem

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Wed May 21, 2008 1:34 pm

Yup. Now try and solve my other problem!

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