Comments on: How to Purge & Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 8/7

By: zytozid

zytozid — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:21:00 +0000

In reply to nick. same here

By: K_D_Queen

K_D_Queen — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:51:00 +0000

What would be the reasons the icon cache doesn’t rebuild itself? Mine doesn’t and even when I switch over to the administrator account the icons aren’t visible.

I even am missing thumbnails and file folder icons as well. So far I’ve tired everything and nothing works.

This started when my computer downloaded and attempted to install a windows 10 update, but I’m running windows 8.1pro.

I’ve spend 8 hours a day working on this for three days now and no solution has proved viable.

I’m not in a position to wipe my system clean. Too many documents and files.More than a terabyte worth to be honest.

I’m going to try the icon cache rebuild tool and let you know how it works.

By: K_D_Queen

K_D_Queen — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 19:18:00 +0000

I’m going to make this issue even more complex— i get the network drives are disconnected pop up along with the icons missing, when I try to search for iconcache.db it returns not available or not found

By: Online Reader

Online Reader — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 05:51:00 +0000

In reply to coyote.

To avoid having downloaded file (not program) shortcuts
display as blank white rectangles, you MUST set a browser as a default browser.
Afterward, all downloaded files will display an icon of the default browser regardless
of which browser was originally used to download the file.

Setting a default browser does not prevent use of more than
one browser. It simply means that if you want to use a browser other than the
default browser, you will need to open
the selected browser when you want to browse the Internet.

If you want to open any file which has been downloaded,
simply select which browser you want to open that file if you want to use a
browser other than the default browser.

By: coyote

coyote — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 21:01:00 +0000

Note: When using the Command Line method on Win7Pro, after I clicked “Exit Explorer” it was by no means clear how to open a command prompt window (the screen was totally black, and my keyboard lacks a Windows key [for Win-R]). But Ctrl-Alt-Del offers the Task Manager, in which one can select File | Run

Oh, and it didn’t work for me anyway.