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DeBertrand
Sep 04, 2026Iron Contributor
All the app icons on my Windows 10 system have turned into Zotero
I'm using an older Lenovo ThinkPad running Windows 10 Education (22H2), and recently many of my application icons have been replaced with Zotero icons. To make matters worse, any items I've pinned to...
Holiney
Sep 04, 2026Copper Contributor
Sounds like the Windows icon cache got messed up possibly after Zotero changed some file associations.
I’d try rebuilding the icon cache first it usually fixes cases where multiple unrelated apps suddenly show the same icon. If that doesn’t help check whether the default app/file associations were accidentally changed to Zotero.
The hardware specs shouldn’t really matter here, this sounds more like a Windows shell/icon cache issue.