Icon Cache - Rebuild

Brink · 26 May 2013

You're welcome. :)

anton · 26 May 2013

Brink said:

You're welcome. :)

From now on, Ι will trust only https://www.sevenforums.com

FirstKnight · 18 Aug 2013

Option 2 worked like a charm, Thanks

fooonair · 01 Sep 2013

awesome. this worked and the missing program icons in the taskbar re-appeared even without a restart

netmouse · 08 Sep 2013

I restored icons by simply renaming the IconCache.db to include the word old and restarted my laptop.

Brink · 08 Sep 2013

Hello netmouse, and welcome to Seven Forums.

That would work as well, but now you have an unneeded backup copy of your old corrupted icon cache taking up space on the HDD.

netmouse · 08 Sep 2013

Brink said:

That would work as well, but now you have an unneeded backup copy of your old corrupted icon cache taking up space on the HDD.

Not a problem at all. The file is only 167 kb (so tiny) and you can delete it. Right?

Brink · 08 Sep 2013

Correct, or use Option One in the tutorial to have it all done for you automatically. :)

Semicharm · 11 Sep 2013

This was what I needed. However, there's no need to reboot the entire system. Running explorer.exe as the last step is all that's needed to reload the user shell.

Brink · 11 Sep 2013

Hello Semicharm,

Yeah, sometimes that's all that may be needed if you just needed to have the cache cleared instead of rebuilt. I just include restarting the PC to be safe since it is needed to have the new hidden IconCache.db file recreated. :)