Adi An Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Hello!I'm new here.I wonder if someone can help me with my problem:I'm facing a problem where my window XP SP3 failed to show icon on window explorer.Desktop icon is perfect. Nothing changed.At first i thought the file "shell32.dll" is missing. But i wasn't.Here is the print screen. Please help me. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Hi Adi An, and....... The fastest fix for this in XP is to download Tweakui and use the "Rebuild Icons" function.To download click: ** HERE ** Apart from fixing your icon problem, you will also have a useful tool to use with XP..=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=If you should be of a more enquiring nature and wish to fix the problem manually. Please follow the below procedure."Quickly Rebuild IconsThe reason for this problem is that the hidden file Shelliconcache fails to rebuild properly after changes. It is usually due to MS only setting aside 500 KB for this cache. They now suggest a maximum of 4096 KB and the easiest way to change this is to produce a .reg file. Copy/Paste the following into NotePad, making sure you include the blank line at the end:" REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer]"Max Cached Icons"="4096" "In NotePad, save this to any convenient folder or to the desktop, giving it the name iconfix.reg Double click this .reg file and accept all prompts. Reboot, because it is possible that this alone will fix the problem. If it does not then it is just a reluctance in Shelliconcache to rebuild. There is an MS procedure to prompt this but it often fails to work first time. The following works immediately: Empty your recycle bin and delete all your desktop "shortcuts" into it. Do NOT touch any system folders such as My Computer, My Documents, Network Neighborhood, Recycle Bin, and so on. Reboot, then restore your shortcuts from the bin. The sudden changes will kick Shelliconcache into rebuilding and the registry fix will prevent or reduce the possibility of this happening again." Hope that has been of some help to you.John. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adi An Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Hi Adi An, and....... The fastest fix for this in XP is to download Tweakui and use the "Rebuild Icons" function.To download click: ** HERE ** Apart from fixing your icon problem, you will also have a useful tool to use with XP..=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=.=If you should be of a more enquiring nature and wish to fix the problem manually. Please follow the below procedure."Quickly Rebuild IconsThe reason for this problem is that the hidden file Shelliconcache fails to rebuild properly after changes. It is usually due to MS only setting aside 500 KB for this cache. They now suggest a maximum of 4096 KB and the easiest way to change this is to produce a .reg file. Copy/Paste the following into NotePad, making sure you include the blank line at the end:" REGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer]"Max Cached Icons"="4096" "In NotePad, save this to any convenient folder or to the desktop, giving it the name iconfix.reg Double click this .reg file and accept all prompts. Reboot, because it is possible that this alone will fix the problem. If it does not then it is just a reluctance in Shelliconcache to rebuild. There is an MS procedure to prompt this but it often fails to work first time. The following works immediately: Empty your recycle bin and delete all your desktop "shortcuts" into it. Do NOT touch any system folders such as My Computer, My Documents, Network Neighborhood, Recycle Bin, and so on. Reboot, then restore your shortcuts from the bin. The sudden changes will kick Shelliconcache into rebuilding and the registry fix will prevent or reduce the possibility of this happening again." Hope that has been of some help to you.John. :)hey thanks!i got a friend who also advice me to use that (tweakui) utilities software. it work. thanks man. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 hey thanks!i got a friend who also advice me to use that (tweakui) utilities software. it work. thanks man. :) Thank you Adi An for coming back and letting us know that things worked out well. Many do not bother to do so.John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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