Icon Disappeared - generic Windows icon showed

Chlpaten · December 18, 2010

For no apparent reason, the Malwarebytes red-square with an M in it icon disappeared from my start menu, taskbar, desktop, etc., even when I looked at the mbam program file in the Program Files (x86)-Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware directory.

Have no clue why, but other folks seem to have icon issues from time to time with other programs on Win 7 - I haven't though.

I solved the issue partially by right-clicking the generic-looking mbam program shortcut, selecting "Change Icon" button on the General tab, then using the "browse" selection button to browse to the C:\Program Files(x86)\Malwarebytes's Anti-Malware directory and select the "mbamgui" file. Then 3 icons appeared in the dialog window and by selecting the usual looking red-square with and M icon, and clicking "ok" and then "apply", the normal Malwarebytes icon was back

This method worked on the desktop shortcut, start menu shortcut, etc.

However, I haven't figured out how to change the mbam.exe program file (in the C:\Program Files... directory) icon from the generic to the red square with an M icon yet. In case you're wondering, yes, I tried uninstalling, and using mbam-clean and reinstalling, but still have the generic icon for the mbam.exe file in the C:\... directory.

This was on my brand new Toshiba Qosmio laptop, Win 7 Ultimate x64, C drive is an SSD. Malwarebytes v 1.50

Also have Avast! anti-virus running, but not much else, this is a brand new (2 days old) machine.

No malware/viruses/etc. detected.

Other folks have had MSWord icons do the same thing suddenly for no apparent reason, under Win 7 from the blogs I've read. I also have a Win 7 Ultimate x64 desktop that doesn't have the icon issue with Malwarebytes, or any other programs either.

However, I have had a few other glitches with the new version (v 1.50) of Malwarebytes, e.g., first attempt to update database in morning causes a crash of the program (so many others report this same problem here on the forum, I know it's not my end - probably a server glitch in the path to the update), but then restarting the program and running update again always gets through. Had the program crash when just starting a full scan one time as well recently. The previous versions of Malwarebytes that I used never had any of these issues, none at all other than a false positive now and then which got corrected quickly by the company.