Increase Icon Cache Size

Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone has come accros a way of increasing the Icon Cache size and also the Folder Icon Cache Size. Vista had some great tools for this but thus far no one seems to have thrown a Windows 7 tool in the hat for us geeks.

Thanks.
Lloyd

Hold the control key down and scroll the mouse to increase or decrease the icon size on the desktop.

Hi All,
Yes indeed I was refering to the CACHE size used for storing icons.

Lloyd

Thanks Jonathan,
Seems to do the trick. Simply when I opened my start button the icons took a long time to display and also the icons in the control panel were taking a long time. Simply I just wanted to increase the speed at which they are displayed by increasing the cache size.

I did try your solution before but had the key as all keys are type, without the spaces.

Jonathan_King said:

Why are you asking?
Try this solution I found:
Open the Registry Editor
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Create a new DWORD called Max Cached Icons and set its value to 2048.
Restart your machine. Let us know if it helps.

Anyone know what the default size of the Icon Cache is?

The default size is 500.

lloydcodrington said:

The default size is 500.

And that is a DWORD? Also I'm unclear on the spaces part of the DWORD. Just for the record, I checked the size of my icon cache and it's 4 mb without any reg tweak. Any links to sources on this for Win 7?