Fixing incorrect Vista icons

[gth]

I'm getting quite regular corruption of Vista icons - refer to URL for the
fix I seem to have to keep doing (say, once every 1-2 months).
http://i.nconspicuo.us/2007/08/28/rebuild-windows-vista-icons-cache-vista-displaying-wrong-icons/
(I did a quick search and this problem has been reported with other, similar
fixes before).

Is this a known Vista bug? Is there an ETA for a fix? I'm applying all
Vista updates as soon as they are released (lots of fun being on the bleeding
edge) and it's still happening.

Fairly basic OS functionality, I would have thought.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You are simply over-reaching the bounds of the default number of icons. You
can lose a tiny bit of desktop performance, but expand the icon cache size
with a hack of the registry entry for that.

hkey_current_user/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/explorer/
IconCacheSize= "<put in a larger number here, like 2000>"

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[gth]

There's a limit on the number of icons? Did someone decide that no-one would
ever need more than 64?

This is fairly trim machine with Office '07 + a couple of Adobe apps. Guess
it's not hard to break Vista, huh?

Doesn't anyone else think that users seeing a script or executable with the
icon of a document as a potential risk? Remember all those default users who
Vista *hides* file extensions from?!

If some registered icons reverted to the system default that'd be a bit more
understandable, but the icon cache seems get totally fecked when this limit
you speak of is breached, resulting in a what looks to be a totally random
icon being chosen for any given extension - rather poor coding, n'est pas?

- G.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Yes, for intensive users the Vista paradigm of 'baby-sitting the user' is a
bit irksome.

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