{"id":728,"date":"2012-10-13T21:42:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T04:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2013-06-23T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:55:04","slug":"battlefield-3-tray-icon-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield 3\/Origin client tray icon disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh.\u00a0 Had ANOTHER problem with Battlefield 3 recently.\u00a0 More annoyance than problem, but the icon in the tray for the Origin client was showing up as a busted link:<\/p>\n

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The Origin program worked fine, but it was annoying because sometimes I forgot I’d opened it and having the ‘broken icon’ button on your toolbar isn’t exactly helpful for finding it.\u00a0 I tried right-click setting properties.\u00a0 Changing the icon to a different icon then back.\u00a0 Removing the program and re-pinning it.\u00a0 Nothing worked.<\/p>\n

Then I found this link.\u00a0 Basically, you need to destroy and then rebuild\/repair your icon cache.\u00a0 You do this via:<\/p>\n

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  1. kill explorer.exe
    \ntaskkill \/IM explorer.exe \/F<\/code><\/li>\n
  2. Deleting your icon cache files:
    \ndel %userpofile%\\AppData\\Local\\IconCache.db \/a<\/code><\/li>\n
  3. Reboot
    \nshutdown \/R \/f \/t 00<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Upon restart, your entire icon cache will get rebuilt (which could take awhile).\u00a0 Mine took about 2-3 minutes during which the machine was almost unresponsive.\u00a0 After that the icons re-appeared and all was well.<\/p>\n

    Link to script that does all this for you and further information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sigh.\u00a0 Had ANOTHER problem with Battlefield 3 recently.\u00a0 More annoyance than problem, but the icon in the tray for the Origin client was showing up as a busted link: The Origin program worked fine, but it was annoying because sometimes I forgot I’d opened it and having the ‘broken icon’ button on your toolbar isn’t exactly helpful for finding it.\u00a0 I tried right-click setting properties.\u00a0 Changing the icon to a different icon then back.\u00a0 Removing the program and re-pinning it.\u00a0…<\/p>\n

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