Icon Cache - Rebuild

Thanks Shawn. I read another tutorial that was incorrect in a few places. As always your tutorial is right on. I always like having automatic and manual options. I like to do it manually and I like to try to learn from opening up the automatic files.

You're most welcome Barefoot.

icons are displaying strange

I don't know what went wrong, but suddenly, some icons in my laptop are displaying strange.
But, when you click on it, it still works and launch the program correctly.
I've tried all the steps above, but nothing seems works.
Do you have any idea what happened and how to solve it?

Hello Lou, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You might see if changing the shortcut's icon back to the correct default one a few times may be able to restore it.

If not, then recreate the shortcut's directly from the program's EXE file to see if they display properly.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

how about changing the files icon?
i can't find the change option in properties.

Lou,

If this it for Office, then you might see if uninstalling and reinstalling the program may restore all of them.

Hi Brink,


I am having a problem with my msconfig.exe desktop shortcut icon, for some reason, it is the only one in my many icons giving me a problem. I am following your tutorial, but I had a problem when I tried to download your Rebuild_Icon_Cache.bat file.

I thought this kind of weird as it is a .bat file which I thought Windows should be able to process. I feel comfortable going one of the other two ways, but should I be concerned that Windows is doing this? Actually noticed it came up as Rebuild_Icon_Cache.download




Maybe this is the problem. Just curious, as I am sure the other methods will work to get my icon back.



OK: now see if I can stump you on this one.

I got my MSCONFIG.EXE shortcut icon back, not with this tutorial but with this one:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/53402-shortcut-change-icon.html

OK? Following me so far.

SO anyways, I go to the actual file location of the original msconfig.exe in the Windows>system32 folder, and the EXE file itself has a generic icon.




Funny thing is when I fixed the icon on the shortcut back using the change icon method, the original msconfig.exe file location was the source for the icon image itself. If it can be the source of the icon image for the shortcut repair, why can't it label itself (the .exe file )with the icon.



You can see I have the icon repaired on the desktop now, but the .exe itself is missing the icon it had and is replaced with a generic one.

This defies all logic as it spawned a replacement image from its own filepath
but fails to even display the same image. Weird.

The location of the icon replacement that worked was here, like this


Do you have any ideas?
:shock::huh:

Hello Jay,

For the BAT file issue, try the BAT download in the tutorial below to restore the default associations for it to see if you are able to run a BAT file afterwards.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html


Since it's a system file, you might see if running a sfc /scannow command may be able to fix it for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink said:

Hello Jay,

For the BAT file issue, try the BAT download in the tutorial below to restore the default associations for it to see if you are able to run a BAT file afterwards.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/19449-default-file-type-associations-restore.html


Since it's a system file, you might see if running a sfc /scannow command may be able to fix it for you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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Right on, I will give those a try. Thanks.

I tried the .bat file association fix.

It said the entry was successful.

I went to download the Rebuild_Icon_Cache.bat and it came back again as




The sfc /scannow said it found and fixed some damaged files, but the msconfig.exe icon is still generic,




so it fixed something, just don't know what.
I do not understand the log file so I have no idea. Plus it's late, and eyes crossing.

Here is the log if you are bored and really feel like strumming thru massive amounts of script, but I am lost when it come to this. ONLY IF YOU NEED A CHALLENGE. NOT IMPORTANT, it is a file I never see, and the desktop shortcut icon works and looks fine. I just find this one absolutely baffling.

Here is the zipped cbs log
View attachment Logzipped.zip


:shock:

UPDATE.

Re-started from scratch, did elevated command prompt of the rebuild_icon_cache steps,

re-ran the sfc /scannow, and re-booted, and VOILA! All systems and icons seem to be back in place! You amaze me man!


It was such a trivial, unimportant thing, but it had me perplexed.

Thanks Brink, I guess I just can't pull one over on ya hey?
:shock:

I guess I missed a step first attempt or something.

Al,

I'm happy to hear that you got the icon issue sorted. arty:

I just noticed from your screenshot on the BAT fiile issue that something is renaming the .bat at the end with .download instead. My guess would be your antivirus program, or some IE8 add-on toolbar.

We can start a new thread for the msconfig icon issue though to keep this one topic, and I'll try to help there.

thanks a LOT

but should i unhide the system files to run the script?

and i don't remember the page but yesterday i found a page with regkey tweak , doesn't somebody know thi page?

Hello Drugo,

No need to, you can just run the BAT and click on RUN to approve running it after you download it.

the dat file

CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
EXIT

did NOT work on a 64bit.
nothing changed.
yes it flashed

Hello Anon,

It works in my 64-bit, and deletes the IconCache.db file. If you had the window open when you did the command, see if refreshing (F5) the window shows that the IconCache.db file has been deleted.

Brink said:

Hello Anon,

It works in my 64-bit, and deletes the IconCache.db file. If you had the window open when you did the command, see if refreshing (F5) the window shows that the IconCache.db file has been deleted.

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searched appdata - foun d file.
interesting when i just open app data - it is not there.
anyway run the tool and do a search and it is still there.
toshiba P500 4mb memory and 64 bit
can i safely just delete the thing and restart? - not keen on that!
thanks

Anon,

Yes, that would just be doing OPTION THREE to manually delete the file instead. Be sure to restart the computer afterwards.

Brink said:

Anon,

Yes, that would just be doing OPTION THREE to manually delete the file instead. Be sure to restart the computer afterwards.

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why cant i see the file?
yes it is there - search finds it
set up see all files.
thanks