Some icons on the start menu are missing after a remote desktop session in Windows 7

I use Win7 Pro SP1 and whenever I come back to my office after finishing a session desktop connection to my computer remotely, I noticed several of the icons in the all programs from the Start Menu section changed to default page icons. If I try to open any programs that are pinned to the start itself, it will indicate that the program cannot be found. Notepad and Calculator in particular to keep more victims of this problem.

I also noticed that the audio controller is disabled until I restart.

I found a batch file that will rebuild the icon cache, but this very annoying to have to keep doing it because I have to remote into my computer almost every morning for the daily scrum meetings we hold in a conference room.

Does anyone know a permanent fix?

Hi Tim,.

What is your length % PATH %. See if this applies in your case.

Windows 7 - after the remote computer desktop target some shortcuts do not work, may be losing %windir%\System32 - Super user: http://superuser.com/questions/867950/after-remote-desktop-target-pc-some-shortcuts-don ' t work-possibly-loses-Amelia

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