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Icon not changing
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. |
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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. |
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Icon not changing
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!! |
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On 11/08/2015 21:40:22, Big Al wrote:
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!! Don't ask, but on odd occasions I have found a complete shut down and power back on to be better than a restart. -- mick |
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