Icons change after startup

After starting up the icons on my desktop, for example a Acrobat Professional .pdf, just looks great but then changes just before finishing startup into a 'normal' icon with just some text as icon.
Does anyone know how icons can be viewed as defined by the program (such as Adobe)?

Sorry, didn't mean to confuse you.
After the login window, the mac starts up and then shows the desktop. The .pdf, docx and xlsx icons on this desktop (so I saved them there once) are first shown as application icons (kind of nice icon with colors). Then during the startup of the Login Items (in my case Mail, iCal and Activity Monitor) the icons change to a regular graphic design which looks like ugly text-icons.
(I think that on the startup of the Login Items the mac is not finished its regular startup so I don't know if these login items have something to do with it. Guess not.)

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