Icon cache reconstruction solves icon display exceptions

Icon cache reconstruction solves icon display exceptions

Symptom description
After you perform a antivirus operation on the system, the icon on the desktop is displayed as abnormal. But it does not affect usage.
 
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Cause Analysis
To improve performance, the system caches all icons in a file in advance, so that you do not have to read the icons of all programs each time you start the system. The reason is that the Icon cache file is damaged. You can solve the problem by recreating the Icon cache.

Solution
Method 1: Delete the Icon cache file
1. in Windows XP, delete C: \ Documents and Settings \ USERNAME \ Local Settings \ Application Data \ IconCache. db file. In Windows 7, delete C: \ Users \ USERNAME \ AppData \ Local \ IconCache. db file. 2.
 
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2. restart the computer and the system will automatically generate the file again.

Method 2: Change the Icon size.
1. for Windows XP, right-click the blank area on the desktop and select "properties". Switch to the "appearance" tab and click "advanced, in "Advanced appearance", select to increase or decrease the Icon size, and click "OK ". 3. In this way, the system will automatically recreate the Icon cache file.
 
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2. If it is a Windows 7 system, select "personalization" in the blank area on the desktop, and click "Advanced appearance Settings". Then, it will be like XP. 4.
 
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Method 3: Use third-party tools
Third-party tools can also be used to easily solve the problem. 5 is to use the Windows optimization master for the purpose.
 
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Additional instructions
1. IconCache. db is a hidden file. Please first show the hidden file in "Folder Options.
2. The default Icon size of the system looks quite comfortable, so if you are not used to it, change the size of the icon you want to increase or decrease in the previous step according to method 2. This method is the most recommended, because it is "Green and pollution-free" (not directly modifying files) and "quick effect" (no need to restart ).
3. Since there are too many third-party tools to implement this function, we will not list them one by one. :)