Win2K won't display icons

[James D Carroll]

I have a folder that contains about 10000 icons. When I open the folder in
Windows Explorer some of the icon file show their contents (you know like a
preview) but a large portion of them don't. This is regardless of the view
(detail, list, etc) that I use.

Any ideas on how I can get all of them to display?


Thanks!!

 

[Gerry Voras]

Quick and dirty fix is to locate the file called "shellIconCache" and delete
it. It has probably become corrupted because it has to deal with so many
icons.

It will rebuild itself in time if you delete it.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Try running regedt32.exe, navigate to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
You can Add a Reg_Sz string value named
"Max Cached Icons"="4096"

 

[Dave Patrick]

More likely the default value of "Max Cached Icons" is too small.

 

[James D Carroll]

Thanks to both of you. I think you're both onto something. I added the key
and the value AND deleted the suggested file. Upon reboot my icon folder
dispayed a portion of the icons, but this time they were contiguous (from
the first to the last displayed in order, where as before it was a patch
here and there).

I'd like to increase the number in the key, but is there something special
about "4096"? It looks like one of those "special" 2^x numbers.


Thanks again!!!

 

[Dave Patrick]

4096 is the max value.

 

[James D Carroll]

Well, rats then. Like I said I have close to 10000 icons in that folder.
Oh well, there are a lot of dupes. I suppose I could delete them and see how
far that gets me.


Thanks for the help!

4096 is the max value.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

Thanks to both of you. I think you're both onto something. I added the key
and the value AND deleted the suggested file. Upon reboot my icon folder
dispayed a portion of the icons, but this time they were contiguous (from
the first to the last displayed in order, where as before it was a patch
here and there).

I'd like to increase the number in the key, but is there something special
about "4096"? It looks like one of those "special" 2^x numbers.


Thanks again!!!

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[Dave Patrick]

Try splitting them into smaller folders.