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re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP
Sunday, May 29, 2005 at 1:20 pm
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Posted by Bert (1 messages posted)


I've just had the same problem as you've been suffering from. Maybe its a bit late, but here is the solution. First of all, I am in the habit of installing lots of (trial) software, ending up with lots of desktop icons, which in the end get corrupted. So first of all, you have to increase the size of XP's icon cache. You do this by navigating with regedit to: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer In the right hand pane, double click on MaxCachedIcons and set it to a larger value like 4096. Close regedit. Now you must refresh the desktop, for instance by the icon size trick (32->33->32) mentioned earlier in this thread. And that should give you a desktop with good icons!


On Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 5:07 pm, kitty wrote:
>;___; I deleted the IconCache, restarted and nothing was fixed
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Written in response to:
re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (kitty: Thursday, September 30, 2004 at 5:07 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Chuck: Sunday, July 17, 2005 at 1:17 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Xapp: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 9:52 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (KW: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 12:55 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (jaf: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 1:07 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (John Liebson: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 1:11 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Joel: Wed, Sep 3, 2003, 6:35 am)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (John Liebson: Wed, Sep 3, 2003, 6:46 am)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (jleeper: Tue, May 4, 2004, 4:53 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (FreonStud: Fri, May 28, 2004, 7:34 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Shaun R.: Fri, Dec 31, 2004, 1:34 am)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (srini: Thu, Dec 22, 2005, 9:53 am)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Heath: Mon, Jan 21, 2008, 8:06 am)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Steve: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 1:42 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Ricer46: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 5:52 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Mary: Fri, Oct 24, 2003, 5:11 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (woodson: Sat, Jan 17, 2004, 10:43 am)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (JJ: Thu, May 6, 2004, 2:02 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (kitty: Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 5:07 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Bert: Sun, May 29, 2005, 1:20 pm)
-re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Chuck: Sun, Jul 17, 2005, 1:17 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Falcon: Sun, Jul 17, 2005, 3:01 pm)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Cam: Thu, Sep 29, 2005, 7:08 am)
*re: Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Xapp: Wed, Nov 22, 2006, 9:52 pm)
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