Windows 10: Programs in second hard drive have no icon in windows search

Discus and support Programs in second hard drive have no icon in windows search in Cortana to solve the problem; Long story short, I accidentally installed a virus on my computer, ran through Malwarebytes and windows defender multiple times and got rid of it. But... Discussion in 'Cortana' started by LamWarp, Apr 7, 2020.

  1. LamWarp Win User

    Programs in second hard drive have no icon in windows search


    Long story short, I accidentally installed a virus on my computer, ran through Malwarebytes and windows defender multiple times and got rid of it. But now I have a problem.


    Any program that I have installed on my second hard drive won't have an icon when I search for it through windows search. For example, I have Premiere Pro installed on my second hard drive, but when I search for it through the search bar, it shows no icon. And under the apps category in the search results, there's a 'program' called 'premiere pro.exe', which, if I try to run it, won't do anything, and click on open file location won't do anything. But if I install premiere pro on my main hard drive, there is an icon. This gets annoying since it's delayed my work many times.


    So I thought it was an issue with the hard drive. So I formated it, that didn't work. I deleted the partition and made a new one, that didn't work either.

    It might be a problem that the virus caused, but I'm not entirely sure. I know that I can reinstall windows and keep my files, but I don't want to do that unless I'm sure there is no other way. So, is there a way to fix this?


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    :)
     
    LamWarp, Apr 7, 2020
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  2. LamWarp Win User

    Programs in second hard drive have no icon in windows search.

    Long story short, I accidentally installed a virus on my computer, ran through Malwarebytes and windows defender multiple times and got rid of it. But now I have a problem.

    Any program that I have installed on my second hard drive won't have an icon when I search for it through windows search. For example, I have Premiere Pro installed on my second hard drive, but when I search for it through the search bar, it shows no icon.
    And under the apps category in the search results, there's a 'program' called 'premiere pro.exe', which, if I try to run it, won't do anything, and click on open file location won't do anything. But if I install premiere pro on my main hard drive, there is
    an icon. This gets annoying since it's delayed my work many times.

    So I thought it was an issue with the hard drive. So I formated it, that didn't work. I deleted the partition and made a new one, that didn't work either.

    It might be a problem that the virus caused, but I'm not entirely sure. I know that I can reinstall windows and keep my files, but I don't want to do that unless I'm sure there is no other way. So, is there a way to fix this?


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    LamWarp, Apr 7, 2020
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  3. Naki Win User
    GPU-Z Program Icon Submission

    Suggestion to have an option to change Notification Area icon this way too.
    Suggestion to finally have proper separate Options window like most (all?) Windows programs do.
     
    Naki, Apr 7, 2020
    #3
  4. Programs in second hard drive have no icon in windows search

    Change external hard drive icon?

    Hi, I have two quick questions. I have a western digital ext. hard drive and when i installed it, the icon was messed up and it is just one of those white error icons. is there a way to change it?

    and seecond question. I was trying to change the icon, and accidently messed something up. not quite sure what, but whenever i double click on my hard drive to open it, instead of opening up the contents it opens up a search in a new window. anyway to change that?

    Thanks for any help.
     
    Pitchblack1110, Apr 7, 2020
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