http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q133733
Icons Displayed Incorrectly in Control Panel
The icon cache may be corrupt. Delete it, & let it regenerate.
Shelliconcache is a hidden file.
(1) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab, bolt 'Show all files'".
Also, UNcheck "Hide file extensions for known file types".
(2) Boot to Safe Mode (hold F5 as you boot).
(3) "START, Find, F/F, Shelliconcache". R-Clk it & select "Delete".
Reboot to Normal Mode.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q132668
Icons Randomly Change to Different Icons
This is how to increase the ShellIconCache size. It may go as high as
4096. (Well, some say 8192.) It has cured, for me, a sluggishness of the
drawing of icons, inside Explorer & My Documents (the small ones to left
of file names).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer
Max Cached Icons 2048 (String value)
1. START; Run; Type "RegEdit" & Enter
2. Clicking the plus (+) signs in the left pane starting at
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" & ending at "CurrentVersion".
3. Finally, click the key "explorer" in the left pane (not it's plus
sign).
4. In the right pane, R-Clk an empty area; point to "new"; select
"string value"; type or paste "Max Cached Icons" & Enter.
5. R-Clk "Max Cached Icons"; select "Modify"; enter "2048" & click OK.
6. Close RegEdit & reboot.
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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
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| >
| > > >after my Win98-system is booting, there are about 30 seconds
hard-disk
| > activity.
| > > >i used a file-monitor and it showed, that the process "explorer"
reads every
| > > >startmenu-entry and reads data from every exe,htm,hlp-...file
that has a link
| > in
| > > >my startmenu.
| > > >it does not execute any program, but only reads data.
| > > >
| > > >i wonder if anyone experienced the same, and how to turn it off ?
| > > >
| > *************** REPLY SEPARATER ****************
| > > Where do you think it gets all the icons from? A link can be
anywhere from
| > > 500-800 bytes. An icon can be anywhere from 1KB to 27KB. The link
tells the
| > > operating system where to find the file, and the file supplies the
icon.
| >
| >
| >
| > *************** REPLY SEPARATER ****************
| > i now found the solution: the icons usually are only one times
collected
| > directly from the files, and then stored in
c:\windows\shelliconcache. I
| > increased the size of the shelliconcache from 512 icons (standard)
to 4096 and
| > now everything is ok. maybe I have more than 512 items in my
startmenu and the
| > cache was to small
|
| How did you change the size of the shelliconcache? I tried what was
| suggested in another note and it wouldn't accept the file I had
| created.
|
| Thanks for any help.
