Repair Missing Icon In Windows 7

Not a while ago i upgrade my OS to Windows 7 64 bit. Why using 64bit version? Because i upgraded my notebook memory to 4GB. And 32 bit OS version cannot use 4GB of memory effectively. And as soon as i upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit, it went smoothly and fast. But i got a strange error, there are some missing icons. For example Skype icon and Mozilla Thunderbird icon. See the image below:

I tried to reinstall skype and thunderbird but still the icon not showing. To fix this you need to clear Windows 7 icon cache. Follow the steps below to repair missing icon in Windows 7:
1. Kill explorer.exe: Open task manager (Ctrl + ALT + Del then choose start Task manager), find explorer.exe then press end process.
2. Run command prompt: press Windows + R then type cmd
3. Go to C:\Users\\AppData\Local:

cd C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Local

4. Delete IconCache.db:

del IconCache.db

5. Start Explorer.exe: press Windows + R then type explorer.exe
6. Voila! Now the Skype and Thunderbird icon are back.

I hope that this article could help you. Thanks and please come back again.

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Ivan Kristianto is a profesional web developer and blogger. Very interest with free and open source software. Follow my Twitter: @ivankrisdotcom or Facebook profile IvanKristiantoBlog or Email me at ivan@ivankristianto.com

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