Icon Cache - Rebuild

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but this is the closest thread I've found.

I frequently create Internet Shortcuts (.lnk files) and move them to a server on my network to make them available from any of the computers on my network - but Firefox (which is what I use for most of my Internet browsing) insists on making the shortcut's icon specific to both the Web site it refers to (by saving a copy of each site's favicon) and to the computer that created the shortcut (by pointing the shortcut to a randomly-named file on the local computer). Obviously, this breaks when you're viewing the shortcut from a different computer than the one that created it, so I edit the shortcut files to remove this unnecessary information. The problem is, after editing, the file still looks the same on the Windows 7 desktop. If I move or rename the file, the icon changes to reflect my editing, but if I move it back, the old icon comes back. Windows 8 doesn't have this problem; apparently it knows to re-initialize the icon information when the file is edited, but Windows 7 doesn't. I don't have to do anything other than restart the computer to clear this up, but it's awfully inconvenient to restart the computer every time I create a shortcut. Is there any way (short of restarting) to force Windows 7 to reread the innards to the .lnk file?

Example:

Internal text of .lnk file:

Code:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild-20.html
IDList=
HotKey=0
IconFile=C:\Users\{me}\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{my}\shortcutCache\{random}==.ico
IconIndex=0

Brink said:

You might see if using the command below to only clear the icon cache may be able to do this for you without having to restart the PC. If it works, then you could create a .bat file with it to make it easy to use as needed.

ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache

For the record, that works. Thanks.

Reposting for results.

kathy025 said:

I just want to confirm the script (.bat) from Option One of the tutorial worked like a charm. Nice! :)

I came across undefined icons just moments back for two programs (i.e. LINE and Wise Registry Cleaner) and now they're back to normal after running the script.

I had to join to say THANKS! This works great! I have been struggling with missing icons for about a year now. Awesome!

I elected to perform the manual procedure - worked like a charm!

Thanks!