Rebuilding Windows Icon Cache

Icon is what we’ve been staring at the first time we open a program. When that icon suddenly changing or not properly displayed, it feels there’s something wrong with the computer — the OS I mean–. To restore to the original icon all you need to do is deleting the “IconCache.db” to force Windows to rebuild the icon when you reboot your computer. Alright, here’s the steps:

HEY: save your unsaved data because these steps require booting.

1. Open command prompt — startmenu – run – type “cmd”
2. taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
3. cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
4. del IconCache.db /a
5. shutdown /r

That’s all.

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