Application icons 'involved' on the menu start - new windows 7 PC

I just got a new HP PC Pavilion that came with Windows 7.  I've loaded my applications successfully and pinned several for my Start menu.  The third day, I noticed that the icons in the start menu display for misapplication.  For example, the Excel icon to Photoshop and iTunes, and Quicken icon shows Excel.

I tried to restart the machine, no luck.  I have this marking everything and them pinned again, still have the problem.

I noticed that applications that were not initially pinned to the start menu to display the correct icon.

Hi Momstl,

Welcome to the Microsoft Answers site!

This can happen because of virus or spyware.

Method 1

Try to run a scan on the computer online and see if you still face the same problem.

http://www.Microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

If that is not enough then try Method 2

Method 2

Create a test user account and see if the problem persists.

  1. Open a user account by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, click user accounts and family safety (or by clicking on user accounts, if you are connected to a network domain), and then clicking user accounts.
  2. Click Manage another account.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
  3. Click create a new account.
  4. Type the name that you want to assign to the user account, click an account type, and then click create an account.

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/fix-a-corrupted-user-profile

Hope this has been helpful.

Kind regards
Bindu S - Microsoft Support
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