{"id":5438,"date":"2021-07-13T21:53:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2021-07-13T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:53:52","slug":"how-to-fix-windows-10-icons-not-updating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/13\/how-to-fix-windows-10-icons-not-updating\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fix Windows 10 Icons Not Updating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/technology-785742_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4817\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/technology-785742_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How To Fix Windows 10 Icons Not Updating<br \/>\nBy Chongchen Saelee<\/p>\n<p>I found a link to instructions that actually works for Windows 10 icons not updating. Prior to Windows 10, the icons were stored in <span class=\"code\">%userprofile%\\AppData\\Local\\IconCache.db<\/span> and all you had to do was delete that file and kill explorer.exe and start it again. At least, that seemed to work perfectly in Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>In Windows 10, you&#8217;re lucky if it updates the icons completely. You can follow the same steps, and it might work partially, but you&#8217;ll notice some icon sizes not updating. It&#8217;s associated to the filename and folder, so it&#8217;s cached somewhere else!<\/p>\n<p>Well, indeed, Windows 10 stores multiple databases for all different icon sizes now, and in a whole different folder <span class=\"code\">%homepath%\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Explorer<\/span>. So you&#8217;re gonna have to delete all of those database cache files in order to properly update your Windows 10 icons!<\/p>\n<p>This article gives you the details on how to do it properly:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/how-reset-icon-cache-database-windows-10\">https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/how-reset-icon-cache-database-windows-10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps anyone from pulling their hair out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Fix Windows 10 Icons Not Updating By Chongchen Saelee I found a link to instructions that actually works for Windows 10 icons not updating. Prior to Windows 10, the icons were stored in %userprofile%\\AppData\\Local\\IconCache.db and all you had to do was delete that file and kill explorer.exe and start it again. At least, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18,589,899,900,972,1233,1261,2126,2139,2678,2716,2836,2837],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-18","tag-corrupt","tag-fail","tag-failing","tag-fix","tag-how-to","tag-icon","tag-refresh","tag-reload","tag-troubleshoot","tag-update","tag-win","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}