[Howto] Clear The Windows Icon Cache.

When altering or updating Windows icons, sometimes the 'IconCache' needs to be refreshed. this IconCache file can become corupt, you can normally tell if this has happened by random wrong icons being displayed for items or no icon showing at all (either 100 percent fully transparent or just a white square in the icons place).

There are methods that can fix these problems and I thought it would be a good idea to write a guide on how to deal with this problem should this happen to our members during customization.

Also, I don't know if other OS's make use of a icon cache but if they do and you feel like adding your bit to the guide, please post it here and I'll add it to the existing one giving you the credit for it (obviously taking 'Windows' out of the title too!)


To view the guide, Please click this link: {Howto} Clear the Windows Icon Cache

To leave comments or to ask questions regarding the guide, please post below. ;)

Thanks for this man. It helped a whole lot. :party2:

I manually changed the .dll files, by taking full ownership made a backup of the original .dll's and replaced it with Mr. Grim Ultimate x64 icons (.dll's)
I have a triple-boot system, but taking full ownership could easily backup the .dll files and replace them.

Anyways some folders remain the same and some are changed, deleted the icon-cache and cleared the Thumbnail-cache, rebooted several times but no luck !

any advice on this will be more then willing to try them out.

Best Regards,

Found out the problem, I removed the IconCache.db "manually" !

But when following your tutorial on the killing/ending the explorer.exe and cmd.exe, worked like a charm !

Thanks again. ;)

i have the same problem as KNiGHTWRiTAZ

but all advices are'nt working :(

I installed the token icon pack with out live Folders!

now i want also token live folders an so i downloaded the live folder .ico's

with Restorator I edited the Imageres.dll look screen
but now windows is always loading the old Imageres.dll...

icon cache is deleted also the other cache!!!

When i open the imageres.dll with windows, then there are only the old .ico's

look my screen!!!
https://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6788/imageres.th.png

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i hope someone got an idea!!!

thanks for all and sry if my english is not the best ;-)

greets

while following this section of the help

7. In the Command Prompt window, type the commands one by one and press ENTER after each command:
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
EXIT


i kept on gettin file not found i had the bluealienware icon pack changed it to the red 1

the dvd drive icon always seems to be the 1 that never changes

happens with what ever icon pack i want to install

any tips thanx in advance :D