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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I have a developer that installed VS 2015 and reported that after the install and a reboot the icons for windows application change to a generic icon and he's unable to access certain Windows functions...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I just updated my VS to 2013 from 2008.. no problems with the icons, but did notice windows not refreshing properly, and artifacts from the 'right-click' context menu staying on the screen.Not sure if...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

We've done plenty of VS upgrades and this issue is a first for us. The dev is behind on Windows Updates, and that's on the plans for today after work hours; I'll add drivers to that update plan and see...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I hear you.. been using VS since even before the .NET days.. so this one caught me by surprise too.  Hope it helps.

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

It saying it can't find %windir% makes me wonder if something went wrong when the installer was trying to write to the environment variables on the system. Did you check that to make sure all these...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I should have had him check that right after his first installation. That variable is set correctly now (windir=C:\Windows) and those programs run now under his profile, but their icons are still the...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

Just an update to this: I haven't had time to try on another dev's computer (and they're kinda if-y on letting me try), but I installed VS 2015 on a clean Windows 7 installation and I didn't have a...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

Final update to close this out. We pulled the trigger on two more machines and there wasn't any problems with the install or the icons. I did, however, talk to the right dev that remembered having this...

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

Nice job, and thanks for the script. Never had an issue updating Visual Studio, but good to know anyway!

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Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I have a developer that installed VS 2015 and reported that after the install and a reboot the icons for windows application change to a generic icon and he's unable to access certain Windows functions...

View Article

Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I just updated my VS to 2013 from 2008.. no problems with the icons, but did notice windows not refreshing properly, and artifacts from the 'right-click' context menu staying on the screen.Not sure if...

View Article

Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

We've done plenty of VS upgrades and this issue is a first for us. The dev is behind on Windows Updates, and that's on the plans for today after work hours; I'll add drivers to that update plan and see...

View Article

Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I hear you.. been using VS since even before the .NET days.. so this one caught me by surprise too.  Hope it helps.

View Article


Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

It saying it can't find %windir% makes me wonder if something went wrong when the installer was trying to write to the environment variables on the system. Did you check that to make sure all these...

View Article

Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

I should have had him check that right after his first installation. That variable is set correctly now (windir=C:\Windows) and those programs run now under his profile, but their icons are still the...

View Article


Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

Just an update to this: I haven't had time to try on another dev's computer (and they're kinda if-y on letting me try), but I installed VS 2015 on a clean Windows 7 installation and I didn't have a...

View Article

Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

Final update to close this out. We pulled the trigger on two more machines and there wasn't any problems with the install or the icons. I did, however, talk to the right dev that remembered having this...

View Article


Visual Studio Installation causes wierdness with Windows icons

Nice job, and thanks for the script. Never had an issue updating Visual Studio, but good to know anyway!

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