Corrupted Icons on Windows Vista

[Guest]

Hello, I am using Windows Vista Home Premium and today I'm experiencing
strange icons behavior. Some system icons in explorer are just black (
desktop, Computer and others) and some shortcuts have black boxes instead of
arrows. I tried to find ShellIconCache file but it seems Vista doesn't use
it. Oh and I checked system for viruses and spyware - nothing found. I also
tried to change to standard color theme but it didn't help. Is there any way
to rebuild Vista icon cache?
I'll appreciate any help.
Regards

 

[OKuma]

Change the color depth to 16-bit then change it back to 32-bit.

This will force the icons to update.

OKuma

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your answer but it didn't help. When changed to 16-bit color
scheme the icons look ok but when changing back to 32-bit they look like
before - black or with black box istead of shotcut arrow.

 

[OKuma]

Change the color depth to 16-bit then change it back to 32-bit.

This will force the icons to update.

OKuma

 

[OKuma]

Try this

Launch an elevated CMD window, ie Right click, Run as Administrator...
Shutdown Explorer Process from the Task Manager
In the CMD window go to C:\Users\<ProfileName>\AppData\Local
Do the following command: attrib -H IconCache.db
Do the following command: del IconCache.db
Do the following command: start explorer

This should rebuild the Icon Cache...

OKuma

 

[Barry]

Perhaps you have a suggestion for another similar problem. If I paste in
photos on entries in my Windows Contacts, the photos are of poor quality.
Specifically, the top half of the photo is faded and the bottom half looks
pretty good. I've noticed the same thing for the "administrator photo"
after you click on "start". You can change the default icon and replace it
but I've found the same problem; that the top half of the icon is faded.
This happens no matter the size of the photo file or the file type. I have
friends using Vista who have the same problem. My Vista came as the
installed operating system on my new Sony notebook. Any suggestions?

Thanks !!
Barry

 

[Guest]

Icon solutions are available in this tutorial.
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88790-stop-icons-shifting-generic-ie-icon.html

 

[Tirado]

Thank you for your suggestions. I followed the suggestions and it worked.
But every time I shut down/restart the desktop icons are blacked out again.
Even on explorer some are blacked out. It seems like the ones I created are
corrupted, like shortcuts of folders.
I've changed the color depth, deleted the cache, restarted, but still, if I
shut down and then start again, they icons will revert back to black.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Tom