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Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. I am preparing for online exam. I tried almost all the methods mentioned here but it was yours that helped. Hi, I have tried all of the various icon 'tweaks' in theses threads but still have a 'black icon' problem. It seems to be slightly different to most asked about here.

I have 2 Win 7 pro systems. On the 'OK' one I have folders containing all my custom icons. I have copied this to my 2nd system to apply the same icons to duplicated folders. All worked well until a few months ago. The 2nd system is gradually being built to mirror the 1st - and will take over soon as it is a better spec' overall. Without having installed anything extra the folder containing my icons decided to show some as ok and some as black squares.

The preview shows the correct icon [but with a black outline. If I copy a black square to the desktop the icon is visible - again with the black outline. I have tried deleting the folder and re-copying but the 2nd system refuses to show all icons in the folder correctly. I have one or two sub-folders where the problem is duplicated - some look OK, some are black squares. Thank you soooo much! After an hour of searching this is the only webpage where I've found a working solution!!!

I think the key for me was to close down Explorer. Previously I tried restart machine directly after deletion and it didn't work. My windows 10 desktop mail icon went blank. I used the "change icon" and the path went to shell Instead of messing around with the computer, I made up a new mail icon by going to google images, picking out a correct mail image and making up a new icon, which I had done before, placed it on the desktop and changed the path to the new icon.

Works fine. I am not happy with windows 10 I will not use the suitable expression and am considering switching to Linux when I can learn enough about it. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Home About Articles Links Forum. Inf To uninstall by command line Win9x : rundll. James says:. Dorene says:. Ian says:. Geoff says:. MajorV says:. Vinicius says:.

Marco says:. Snakefoot says:. Lars says:. Peter says:. Luiz O says:. Iudith says:. Steve says:. Caching mechanisms, such as the IconCache database, have been already discussed by multiple system specialists, and in depth by Mark E. Russinovich and David A. This file is still present in Windows 8 and 10, but Windows does not use them to store the icon cache. In Windows 8 and Windows 10, the icon cache file is located in:. To rebuild the icon cache, you have to delete all the iconcache files that appear in this folder.

Close and save anything that you are working on before proceeding. Open File Explorer and go to the following folder:. To make sure the command prompt is in the correct folder, type the dir command.

You should see the iconcache and thumbcache files we discussed earlier appear. The Explorer and desktop will disappear. Exit Task Manager and make sure that no other application is running except for the command prompt window. Press Enter. The asterisk after iconcache is necessary to make sure all files with names that start with iconcache will be included in the delete operation.

That should delete all the icon cache files. Run the dir command to check the list of remaining files. If one or more iconcache files are still listed, it means some applications are still running in the background.

Close them and repeat the procedure again, if necessary. But if you have other icon problems, hopefully rebuilding the icon cache will fix them.

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