Big Al wrote on 8/11/2015 4:00 PM:
Ken1943 wrote on 8/11/2015 3:46 PM:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:41:19 -0400, Big Al wrote:

I made an icon using Greenfish Icon Editor for a shortcut on my desktop.
I called the icon whatever.ico
Great, and now the shortcut works...

But I find that I don't like the icon so I recreated it. Different image but same name.

However even though I went back to the shortcut and re-picked that icon, and it shows right on the pick, it does not
show right on the desktop. Still shows the same old icon.
I tried changing it to another icon for a minute and then back. Still old icon.

If I look at the icon in any viewer it looks proper, but some cache in windows is not changing.

I think I've cleared any icon caches I have, I ran ccleaner and wiped the explorer icon cache, deleted thumbs.db a few
places.

Anyone got any ideas what is caching? I've rebooted many times too.

Maybe this has some other information.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuil...-cache-windows


Ken1943

Good idea but didn't work. It did fix it in my icon folder. The icon there still showed the wrong pic. Now that
that is fixed, I tried it all over again and still no go. I decided on a different Icon and that works. Later on
some day I'll go back maybe. It's not the biggest issue in life.
Thanks.
Dang if the latest reboot didn't change the icon. I rebooted to bring up my linux system and after playing there for a
while booted back to win8. And now the icon has changed. Maybe it takes 4 reboots and not 3 :-)
Stupid windows!!