How To Purge & Rebuild The Icon Cache In Vista

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If you find that one or more of your icons are not displaying correctly, or that your icon cache is corrupted, you might want to consider rebuilding your icon cache.

Method 1

Open Windows Explorer, and configure your Folder Options > Views to show Hidden / System Files. Next go to C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local folder and delete the hidden IconCache.db file. Reboot. This action will purge and rebuild the icon cache.

Method 2

Kill Explorer.exe process.To do so follow this procedure

click Start button > Hold down Ctrl+Shift & Right Click on empty area in the Start Menu > Click “Exit Explorer”.

Click Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys and open Task Manager.

Click File > New Task > cmd.exe > OK. This will open the command prompt.

Type cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

Click OK

Type attrib –h IconCache.db

Click OK

Type del IconCache.db

Click OK

Type start explorer

Click OK.

Your Vista Icon Cache would have been rebuilt.

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