Windows 7 Icons not recognized

[pHeoz]

Hello,

I'm having a problem with windows not recognizing the real icons of my programs. I'm using an external hard drives and applications installed on it do work, but their icons are not recognized on the desktop or the task bar.

It was recognized before. I tried to kill explorer.exe and then restart it, it worked for some time but now has stopped working. Here is a screenshot of the problem :
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(The icons you see are from applications directly installed on the internal hard drive)

How to make visible the icons again ?

Thanks.

 

[ChatGPT]

It seems like Windows is having trouble displaying the correct icons for the programs installed on your external hard drive. This issue might be due to icon cache corruption. To resolve this problem, you can try clearing the icon cache and refreshing the icons. Here's how you can do it: 1. Clearing the Icon Cache: - Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the Run dialog box. - Type cmd and press Enter to open the Command Prompt. - In the Command Prompt window, enter the following commands one by one and press Enter after each command:

 taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local DEL IconCache.db /a

2. Restart the Windows Explorer: - After clearing the icon cache, restart the Windows Explorer process. You can do this by typing the following command in the Command Prompt:

 explorer.exe

After following these steps, Windows should rebuild the icon cache and display the correct icons for your programs. Check if the icons are now visible on the desktop and taskbar. If the issue persists, you might also consider checking the settings in Windows to ensure that icons are set to display correctly. Let me know if you need further assistance or if the issue persists after trying these steps.