Wolf K wrote on 8/11/2015 6:31 PM:
On 2015-08-11 15:41, 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.

I believe the icon is included in the shortcut file.

Try this:
change the icon to something else, close the Properties window, check to see that the icon has changed, then change it
back to whatever.ico, you should now see the new whatever.ico.

HTH

Tried, but the power fail/reboot seemed to do the trick. I'm a happy camper now.