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So, a few of my buddies decided it would be funny, given that I hate internet explorer, to change all of the icons on my desktop to that of IE and rename them all to Internet explorer as well. However, I, nor them, have any idea on how to get the icons back. Help.

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Look at the properties. I feel sorry for you.

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Not that this is the fastest solution but just delete them all and then goto the Folders where the program you want is and right click the program file and send shortcut to desktop

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Thinking about it a bit more 

Maybe right click the fake IE Short cuts and click show in folder and the real one would be there i think and then delete the IE of that one this way you would not have to search and would get them all back 

 

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So, a few of my buddies decided it would be funny, given that I hate internet explorer, to change all of the icons on my desktop to that of IE and rename them all to Internet explorer as well. However, I, nor them, have any idea on how to get the icons back. Help.

Do the icons still point to their original locations/applications in the shortcut properties?

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Look at the properties. I feel sorry for you.

 

I went to properties and hit change icon but the orignal one was not there.

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All of the icons should be found in that specified program's contents folder under "Program Files".

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So, a few of my buddies decided it would be funny, given that I hate internet explorer, to change all of the icons on my desktop to that of IE and rename them all to Internet explorer as well. However, I, nor them, have any idea on how to get the icons back. Help.

Well.. that sucks. And secondly, don't give your passwords or leave your account logged in. 

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Click properties and find the picture. Or delete all of those shortcuts and make new ones, by dragging the program out of the start menu.

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Well.. that sucks. And secondly, don't give your passwords or leave your account logged it. 

 

true, especially at high school. lol

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open the proppetie of the sortcut and look at the file location there you will find everything you will need. ofores you will need to that for every shortcut.

also go and prank your friends :)

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Maybe right click the fake IE Short cuts and click show in folder and the real one would be there create shortcut drag or send to desktop and then delete the IE of that one


 


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Well.. that sucks. And secondly, don't give your passwords or leave your account logged it. 

 

true, especially at high school. lol

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So, a few of my buddies decided it would be funny, given that I hate internet explorer, to change all of the icons on my desktop to that of IE and rename them all to Internet explorer as well. However, I, nor them, have any idea on how to get the icons back. Help.

i love your buddies 

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Right click on the desktop shortcut and click properties. The target location will tell you what it is supposed to be. Clicking change icon will give you a dialog box with the icons windows can find in the programs directory. Just select the right icon and then rename the shortcut.

 

EDIT: this is for win7 and later. It may be different before win7.

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Restore point? I would be pissed beyond pissed if that doesn't work...

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Less buddies and more assholes

Yea that is more of a dick move than a prank because of the hassle it creates afterwards.

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Restore, then prank them back. Like set the mouse cursor speed to maximum slowness, replace their desktop image, or go into their system and remove a hard drive or something.

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If it's any help, one kid I know changed my Internet Protocols(DNS ver 4) so that I couldn't access any of my college's websites while on the college wifi because my internet would search for the website outside of the server which doesn't work unless I'm not on the college's wifi...

 

....took me a whole semester to figure it out and reverse it but it still changes back on restart...

 

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Rightclick, Properties,... Open File Location, Delete that shortcut on desktop and recreate it from the apps source folder. (Rightclicking the executable and creating shortcut, copy to desktop)

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Your buds are legen wait for it lets hope you not lactose intollerent dairy.

If i was you is taze em in the neither regions.

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--brilliantprank--

...being a Computer Science major is hard.

This is amazing, I'll have to remember this for future use...

Your buds are legen wait for it lets hope you not lactose intollerent dairy.

If i was you is taze em in the neither regions.

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