Icons Not Displaying Correctly

Are you facing any of the below problems:

• Icons Not Displaying Correctly
• How To Rebuild Icon Cache
• Distorted Icons Display
• Icon Not Appearing For A Particular File Extension Type.

In order to fix all of the above mentioned you will need to force Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 to rebuild the icon cache.

Manual Method To Rebuild Icon Cache:
1. Firstly you will need to show hidden files and folders

2. Now, open windows explorer and navigate to

For Vista and Windows 7

C:\Users\(You Vista User Name)\AppData\Local

For Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\(Your User Name)\Local Settings)\Application Data

3. Delete the file named Iconcache.db

4. now close all the process and restart your computer, at the time logging in windows will automatically re create the Iconcache.db file.

Automatically Method To Rebuild Icon Cache

There is one free utility called Icon Refresh which automatically deletes and let widows to recreate the icon cache to fix all the problems.

Download Icon Refresh