Recycle Bin icon doesn't update icon status

[Holger Metzger]

Hi all,

my Recycle Bin does not update its icon status, i.e. when I delete
something I always have to press F5 to "refresh" the icons to get the
correct icon of the "full" bin displayed; and when I empty the recycle
bin, the same thing happens. What seems to be the problem here? Is there
a icon cache file somewhere that I have to delete?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Right click the Command Prompt shortcut, 'run as administrator'
shutdown the Explorer process in Task Manager
At the prompt, go to C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local
atrib -h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db
start a new explorer.exe task

 

[Holger Metzger]

In addition to Mark's post, this tutorial will show you how to fix the
Recycle Bin icon refreshing problem.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66294-recycle-bin.html

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Recycle Bin icon does not refresh automatically:
http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/252/1/Recycle-Bin-icon-does-not-refresh-automatically.html

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

Hi all,

my Recycle Bin does not update its icon status, i.e. when I delete
something I always have to press F5 to "refresh" the icons to get the
correct icon of the "full" bin displayed; and when I empty the recycle
bin, the same thing happens. What seems to be the problem here? Is there
a icon cache file somewhere that I have to delete?