Comments on: [ Solved] Icons Not Displaying Correctly | How To Rebuild Icon Cache | Distorted Icons Display | Icon Not Appearing For A Particular File Extension Type | Delete and Recreate Iconcache.db

By: Clean & Remove Log and Junk Files In Windows 7 With PureRa

Clean & Remove Log and Junk Files In Windows 7 With PureRa — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:46:22 +0000

[...] can also repair icons in windows 7, as this program cleans the IconCache.db file which stores icon cache. This data cleaner cleans [...]

By: Luiz O

Luiz O — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:17:22 +0000

Clearing and Rebuilding Icon Cache:

To automate this process open notepad and paste the code below, save it to desktop as RefreshIcons.bat, double click on the file and you are all set. You can do this every time the icon cache needs to be rebuilt. Make sure all your applications are closed whenever you run this.

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
attrib –h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db
start explorer

By: Rag

Rag — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:32:21 +0000

Thanks for the tips. The icon problem is solved.

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:00:55 +0000

Am using Windows 7, the portable utility does not work at all. Tried it, but there was no changes.

In fact, even without it, I did the removal of the IconCache.db manually, and then restart explorer.exe or computer, there was absolutely no changes. What’s worse, IconCache.db was not rebuilt after several times of restarting.