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    Default Refreshing icons

    Hi Friedrich,

    I know this has been beaten to death before, but I have a situation with
    my client. We have completely changed all the icons in out
    applications. They are all correct but windows is not refreshing the
    silly cache, even when he uses the "Refresh desktop" function in SB - it
    doesn't want to pull the correct icon for the *taskbar* so it shows the
    generic "no-icon" icon!

    I managed to clear the cache on my machine, but it is not something that
    customers can be expected to do - it involved shutting Explorer down,
    firing off a command line statement: ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache and
    then starting explorer again! Found it here:
    https://superuser.com/questions/4990...hout-rebooting
    - answer 27 more and less worked for me along with the command line above!

    Note that I'm on Windows 8.1 and he is on 10, but we have had the same
    problem.

    Is there any way to tell Windows to just throw out whatever junk it has
    in the silly cache and rebuild it? Any insights will help!

    Best regards,

    --
    Arnor Baldvinsson
    Icetips Alta LLC

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    > Is there any way to tell Windows to just throw out whatever junk it has
    > in the silly cache and rebuild it?

    I too wrestled with this until I gave up. If you change an icon for an
    app it is anyone's guess on which machines it will change. I got an
    automated clear all cached icons going [you have to do it several places
    I seem to recall] but there was no consistency. Sometimes it worked and
    sometimes it failed. I never bothered to find out why - just put it
    down to yet another Windows nuance.

    Andre Labuschagne

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    Hi Friedrich,

    > Note that I'm on Windows 8.1 and he is on 10, but we have had the same
    > problem.
    >
    > Is there any way to tell Windows to just throw out whatever junk it has
    > in the silly cache and rebuild it? Any insights will help!

    After spending considerable time testing this and trying out various
    things, we have found a way that seems to work 100% - so far!

    1. RENAME the bleeping icon!
    2. Use the "Refresh Desktop" action

    The RENAMING is absolutely the key! Then Windows doesn't find the icon
    in the cache!

    So simple, yet so elusive!

    Best regards,

    --
    Arnor Baldvinsson
    Icetips Alta LLC

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    Hi all,

    > After spending considerable time testing this and trying out various
    > things, we have found a way that seems to work 100% - so far!
    >
    > 1. RENAME the bleeping icon!
    > 2. Use the "Refresh Desktop" action

    Not quite so fast! It works perfectly on a *32bit* Windows 10 machine,
    but fails on 64bit Windows 10 machine (tested on two). The desktop
    refreshes, but it still uses the old icons

    What a PITA!

    Best regards,


    --
    Arnor Baldvinsson
    Icetips Alta LLC

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    Arnor,

    > Not quite so fast! It works perfectly on a *32bit* Windows 10 machine,
    > but fails on 64bit Windows 10 machine (tested on two). The desktop
    > refreshes, but it still uses the old icons

    If I'm recalling correctly the cache retains the icon number so if the
    icon is still the number "0" icon it retrieves the image from the
    cache instead of from the library.

    Even if you change icons in the shortcut to some other icon and then
    change it back to the first icon the OLD image will be displayed! MS
    helping us when help is not wanted nor needed - THANK YOU!<g>

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    Hi Lee,

    > Even if you change icons in the shortcut to some other icon and then
    > change it back to the first icon the OLD image will be displayed! MS
    > helping us when help is not wanted nor needed - THANK YOU!<g>

    This is an absolute PITA!

    But I did find a way that seems to solve this for me on 64bit machines.

    http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deskto...ically-windows

    Setting this registry key and rebooting DOES refresh the icons, but it
    introduces quite a bit of delay displaying the desktop as Windows goes
    and caches the icons again. Turn it off or delete it and it seems to
    revert back to previous stage.

    Then there is the way of deleting the cache files
    (http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuil...che-windows-10)
    that that involves shutting down explorer, gaining admin access to the
    files, deleting them and then restarting explorer. NOT for the faint of
    heart!

    Best regards,


    --
    Arnor Baldvinsson
    Icetips Alta LLC

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    Hi Lee,

    > If I'm recalling correctly the cache retains the icon number so if the
    > icon is still the number "0" icon it retrieves the image from the
    > cache instead of from the library.

    The thing was that changing the icon name and adding the refresh desktop
    in SB fixed this on 32bit, where neither change by itself did. On 64bit
    Windows 10 latest whatever, it did absolutely nothing! Nada! All it
    did was flicker one (or flip it, not sure what it was and that was that.

    Total, royal PITA!

    Best regards,



    --
    Arnor Baldvinsson
    Icetips Alta LLC

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    As I said - tried all you have suggested and the result varies from
    machine to machine no matter the OS version. It is a real mess. I
    eventually gave up.

    A PITA puts it mildly. I have more apt descriptions. I cannot believe
    that MS with their developers and resources cannot make this a simple
    and fool proof exercise. It is a joke.

    Andre Labuschagne

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    Hi Andre,

    > A PITA puts it mildly. I have more apt descriptions. I cannot believe
    > that MS with their developers and resources cannot make this a simple
    > and fool proof exercise. It is a joke.

    It really is There should be some simple APIs like
    "RefreshDesktopIcons" and "RefreshIconCache" Really seems it would be
    easy for the internal guys!

    I hear that Gates has a 10K sq.ft. tiny house up in the hills here on
    the Peninsula. Maybe I should go sit on his lawn for a day or two<g>

    Best regards,

    --
    Arnor Baldvinsson
    Icetips Alta LLC

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    > Maybe I should go sit on his lawn for a day or two<g>

    LOL

    Andre Labuschagne

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