Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders. Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot ...

It's also showing my card reader as Unspecified and generic icon. ... All 7 show proper icons in a Windows 7 computer. 3. SD cards show their proper icons as do USB hard drives.

The generic user icon in Outlook 2010, the stand in picture users see when a contact doesn’t have a photo, seems to bear a striking resemblance to Bill Gates’ infamous 1977 mug shot.