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Black squares on some icons?

Started by Jir , Aug 13 2009 08:07 AM

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Jir

Posted 13 August 2009 - 08:07 AM

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Why are there some black squares on some icons? I read that you need to delete the shelliconcache file, but Windows Vista doesn't have one. Can anyone tell me where to go to delete the file Windows Vista uses?

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I found out a way to fix it

Open Wordpad
Put this in:

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h iconcache.db
del iconcache.db
explorer.exe

Save as RebuildVistaIcons.bat and run it.

Edited by Jir, 13 August 2009 - 01:13 PM.

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Jir

Posted 13 August 2009 - 01:13 PM

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I found out a way to fix it

Open Wordpad
Put this in:

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h iconcache.db
del iconcache.db
explorer.exe

Save as RebuildVistaIcons.bat and run it.