Why do my shortcut icons get broken on Windows 7?
I figured it out. Here's the answer:
- Run "regedit"
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
- Change "Max Cached Icons" to 10000 or more. Upper and Lowercase SENSITIVE!
- If it doesn't exist create it as new "string"
- Reboot
After that
- Go to
"
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Local
" - Delete IconCache.db
- Reboot again
Or try this solution that always works for me:
open cmd-console in admin mode
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
start explorer.exe via taskmanager
Edit 2016-05-07: Easiest solution: Link
I found the cause of the misteriously disappearing Windows 7 desktop icons and the reason why Show desktop icons now and then gets unchecked.
It’s INFRARECORDER !! Try for yourselves, when you start Infrarecorder and close it again, go have a look at “Show desktop icons”, it is unchecked (but the icons are still there). Check it on again and start Infrarecorder…. it is unchecked again.
This Windows 7 “bug” is irritating me since the beginning and now I found the cause: It’s Infrarecorder which is causing this problem.
Test it, please let me know and spread the news :-)