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