You will have to navigate to the following folder:Ĭ:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer This action would purge and rebuild the icon cache.īut this is not enough in Windows 10 or Windows 8.1.
Next, go to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local folder and delete the hidden IconCache.db file. If you needed to rebuild the Icon cache in Windows 7 / 8, you needed to do the following: Open File Explorer > Folder Options > Views to show Hidden System Files. In Windows 10, you need to do the following. Things changed again Windows 8.1 onwards. Things were different in Windows XP and they are different in Windows 7 / 8. This helps in making Windows draw the icons faster.
When Windows needs to draw an icon, it uses the copy from the cache instead of retrieving the icon image from the original application file. The Icon Cache or IconCache.db is a special database file that Windows utilizes to keep copies of each icon handy. I researched on this issue and found that re-building Icon Cache can fix this issue.
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