Some icons not showing up in Win 7 (new install)

[Theocnoob]

I reinstalled win 7 with my same old hardware.


Sometimes icons don't show up. Either in folders or the task bar. Why?
Here in the taskbar you can see the malwarebytes icon doesn't show.

 

[TollhouseFrank]

considering i don't use desktop icons and i got rid of the quicklaunch icons (i use start menu with the handful of programs i use pinned to it), i'm not really sure. But it looks like an icon caching issue. Does going and redirecting the link to the proper icon image fix it?

 

[Theocnoob]

No redirecting does nothing. I ran malwarebytes, spybot, kaspersky and ad aware. Just some cookies nothing there (head scratch... frown....)
Also sometimes when I open a folder the icons take 3 seconds to show up. Even though I'm AHCI on a 500MB/s SSD.

 

[TollhouseFrank]

hmm. Delete the quicklauncher, reboot (to clear cache), recreate it, reboot and see if the issue happens again?

 

[c627627]

Open Notepad. Paste this, then save the file as Rebuild.bat then double click on Rebuild.bat

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h iconcache.db
del iconcache.db
explorer.exe

 

[Theocnoob]

Open Notepad. Paste this, then save the file as Rebuild.bat then double click on Rebuild.bat

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h iconcache.db
del iconcache.db
explorer.exe

I have no clue how you know that. But I salute you, and it worked.
A million thank yous to you.