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January 14th, 2010, 03:45 PM
#1
[RESOLVED] IconCache.db missing
As the icons on my desktop load very slowly, I remembered that a possible solution was to delete the folder IconCache.db.
To my surprise there is no such folder in my C drive, and I am sure it was there once, as I deleted it.
On searching for it , I took the precaution of changing folder properties in order to hidden folders to be shown and system protected files not to be hidden.
I created a folder named IconCache.db on C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Application Data and restarted the machine, but the folder remains empty.
Any ideas ?
I have XP Pro SP3
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January 14th, 2010, 04:17 PM
#2
It's not a folder; it's a file.
You also have the wrong path.
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data
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January 14th, 2010, 06:13 PM
#3
No, I had the right path:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Configuración local\Application Data
I copied it wrongly in my post.
Anyway, now a made a file named IconCache.db, made it read only, restarted, suppressed the read only attribute, restarted again, and the file remains 0 Kb in size.
I remember seen somewhere that this was a good way to recreate IconCache.db, but it does not work. ( I remembered wrongly that it was a folder )
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January 14th, 2010, 07:15 PM
#4
you just need to delete the iconcache.db and it will get recreated automatically.
If that still doesn't work, try this:
http://smallvoid.com/article/windows-icon-cache.html
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January 14th, 2010, 08:49 PM
#5
I can not delete IconCache.db because, as I said before, it does not exist in my system.
Actually, I have deleted it once, long time ago, and as it seems, it was never automatically recreated.
I will consider your other suggestions.
Thanks for your input.
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January 15th, 2010, 02:17 PM
#6
Ricardo, Try the following. Right click your Desktop, choose Properties, under the Settings tab>Color Quality change the color quality from 32 bit to 16 bit, click Apply/OK. Now go back and change the color quality from 16 bit to 32 bit, click Apply/OK. This will rebuild the IconCache.db file and should restore that file.
Tufenuf
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January 15th, 2010, 03:37 PM
#7
Thanks Tufenuf,
I did what you suggested and, on restarting the machine, as soon as the desktop appeared, the icons were already there.
An there was a new file IconCache.db 2065 Kb, created on 15/01/2010 at 16.03, but in the folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Configuración local\Datos de programa
Instead of:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Configuración local\Application Data
This is because I have the Spanish version of XP. Anyway before this, the file was not in either folder, as I searched for it in the entire drive.
Thanks again for your simple an effective solution.
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January 15th, 2010, 06:59 PM
#8
Ricardo, Glad to see that the problem is corrected and Thanks for posting back to let us know.
Tufenuf
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