For as many times as this has been reported, you'd think that they'd have fixed it by now. I mean seriously, how hard can it be?
The shortcut for NIS 20.4.0.40 (latest) changed to a generic icon - again. The shortcut does work and loads the NIS interface just fine. The properties are incorrect.
If you right-click and checked the properties of the bogus shortcut, it shows the correct Yellow icon and you see this:
Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine64\20.4.0.40\uiStub.exe"
Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine\20.4.0.40"
However, if you try to change the icon you get this error:
"Windows can't find the file %ProgramFiles%\Norton Internet Security\Engine\20.4.0.40\Settings.dll."
That folder doesn't even exist and NIS is installed in this folder on my Windows 7 Pro x64 machine and that "settings.dll" file does not exist in there at all.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine64\20.4.0.40\
If you open Start/Programs/Norton Internet Security and then use "Send to/desktop (create shortcut)", it still creates the same shortcut, with the incorrect generic icon. The icon in the Start/Programs/Norton Internet Security folder is also incorrect.
What's even more curious is that the icon for this file (which starts the NIS interface), is completely different from the standard NIS icon. And as expected, creating a shortcut to this file, starts the NIS interface just fine.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Norton Internet Security\Engine64\20.4.0.40\uiStub.exe
I have uninstalled (complete removal) and re-installed twice, just to be sure. The results are the same. They've broken it again.