It must be something in the water. Another weird issue came up recently. This time around it desktop icons that are not showing up properly. So I started to dig and search and found a part of Windows I had never seen before: icon cache
This is the location to which Windows save application icons (all icons really) so that it can load them faster than having to search or go to a specific application folder.
The easy way to fix the problem mentioned is:
- Navigate to c:\users\(usernamer)\appdata\local
- Make sure you have show hidden files turned on
- Delete the file iconcache.db
WIndows will rebuild this file as needed. You may notice a small performance hit the first time loading you desktop (very small) but that should fix the problem
If that doesn’t work or you just want to look like a 1337 coder try this
- In Windows 7, click Start button then hold Ctrl+Shift & Right Click on a blank area in the Start Menu and click “Exit Explorer”
- Press Ctrl+Shift+escape to open task manager
- Click File – New task (run)
- Type CMD
- enter these commands in Command prompt
- cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
- attrib –h IconCache.db
- del IconCache.db
- start explorer
This will also delete the cache so you will see a very small performance impact the next reboot.
Enjoy your icons!