Comments on: How to refresh icon cache without restarting windows

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:11:52 +0000

“ie4uinit.exe -Show” worked for me (Win 10 Pro).

By: aquawicket

aquawicket — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 04:11:00 +0000

ie4uinit.exe -show

By: Usman Khurshid

Usman Khurshid — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 09:42:10 +0000

In reply to sudhir.

You can try using CustomizerGod. It seems to be a good utility for changing icons. Otherwise, you’ll need to change some dll files inside the System32 directory which is not recommended at all.
http://www.door2windows.com/customizergod/

By: sudhir

sudhir — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:46:30 +0000

accidentally once selected wireless network icon that ‘aeroplane symbol’ in a taskbar corner on the desktop is not at all wanishing even tried changing adapter, icon set, mode of connection blue tooth setup etc. this I could not fix. Do you have solution to restore the original network icon ‘square box’ with correct status display.

By: David Spector

David Spector — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 21:57:07 +0000

This is the standard advice. Doesn’t seem to work on Windows 10 Home version 1803. The IconCache.db file cannot be deleted even after Explorer.exe is closed. Something is keeping it open. You might consider deleting this article.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 May 2019 23:15:17 +0000

Doesn’t work.
Deleting the files just deletes the files.
Windows will not create new icons.