Accessed recovery partition and icons got messed up

Hello. Earlier I was browsing around my system and I accidentally clicked on the HP Recovery partition in My Computer and Python, Windows Live, Microsoft Office, and Google Sketchup 8 icons and a few more were turned to the missing icon. I can still run them, but missing the icons. If there isn't a fix I can probably just modify my system security to let me change icons. But if the is one, I would kill for it. Please help.

System Restore is a function of Windows.  You can access it byOpen System Restore by clicking the Start button . In the search box, type System Restore, and then, in the list of results, click System Restore.

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