Force Vista/Win7 to Rebuild Icons
Windows Vista and Windows 7 Icons:
In 9x/2k/XP, if icons got corrupted, you could rebuild them with TweakUI.
Microsoft hasn’t released TweakUI for Vista or Windows 7, so how do you trigger an icon rebuild?
I found that if you delete the icon cache, then change the color mode, Windows Vista and Win7 will rebuild your icons.
This program is supposed to automate it:
http://xenomorph.net/data/RebuildIcons_0.0.0.1.zip
I know it says for “Vista” when it runs, but it works for Windows 7 as well.
Manual fixes:
Previous versions of Windows had a feature in “TweakUI” to rebuild the icon cache. Since Vista doesn’t have TweakUI, you need to find other ways to rebuild the icon cache.
Make sure you have Command Prompt and Task Manager open.
Go to your local settings folder, such as:
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local>
Type “attrib -h iconcache.db” (without quotes)
Use Task Manager to kill Explorer.exe
Delete the IconCache.db file.
Type “explorer” to re-load Explorer.
Windows should re-build the icon cache.
Another method:
Delete the IconCache.db file as mentioned above, but instead of killing Explorer, instead switch to 16-bit color mode, and then back to 32-bit color mode.
