I deleted the Icon cache and all of the icons (even the files, pictures, all) are gone when I restarted my laptop. How do I fix this?

Question

As I said, I deleted the Icon Cache and when I restarted my laptop, all of the icons are gone. I tried tutorials, but they didn't work. Also, I tried to find the Icon Cache file but I couldn't find it because it's deleted? I don't really know.

Answer 1

Open Command Prompt as administrator and copy-paste the following commands followed by hitting the enter key:

cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

del iconcache*

Reboot.

If the above doesn't help then:

Open File Explorer and go to C:\Users[YourUsername]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Delete all files that start with "thumbcache".

Reboot.

Open the Command Prompt as an administrator.

Type sfc /scannow and press Enter.

Answer 2

Hi Anon,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

You can also try rebuilding the icon cache to restore desktop icons.

1. Open the search bar and type "cmd" and select "Run as administrator".
2. Enter each of the following command lines and press the "Enter" key to execute the operation:

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe

cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local

attrib -h IconCache.db

del IconCache.db

start explorer.exe

I hope the information above is helpful.

Best regards

Zunhui

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