I had a couple of wrong icons on my desktop and used the repair icons feature of TweakUI (the newest version). It rebuilt all my desktop icons into 16 color ugly @ss Win2k/Win95 looking icons. I can go to 32-bit color and all is good. If I go back, the ugly icons come back with it. I tried rebuilding them again but it didn't work. This is the second time tweakUI has done this to me. I thought it was a fluke last time. Now I'm just irritated. Thanks for your help.
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Icon problem after using TweakUI 1
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TweakUi rebuilds the icon cache by adjusting by 1 pixel the icon size, and then changing it back.
To restore your icon cache, check the registry and then delete the icon cache. The registry entries below include an increase in the size of the icon cache to 2048:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer]
"Max Cached Icons"="2048"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"Shell Icon BPP"="16"
"Shell Icon Size"="32"
After making sure the entries in the registry appear as above, delete C:\Windows\shelliconcache (a hidden file) and restart Windows. That will rebuild the cache.
To restore your icon cache, check the registry and then delete the icon cache. The registry entries below include an increase in the size of the icon cache to 2048:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer]
"Max Cached Icons"="2048"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"Shell Icon BPP"="16"
"Shell Icon Size"="32"
After making sure the entries in the registry appear as above, delete C:\Windows\shelliconcache (a hidden file) and restart Windows. That will rebuild the cache.
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"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer]
"Max Cached Icons"="2048" "
This doesn't exist on my system (Home edition SP1)
"After making sure the entries in the registry appear as above, delete C:\Windows\shelliconcache (a hidden file)"
This folder doesn't exist either.
"[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"Shell Icon BPP"="16"
"Shell Icon Size"="32" "
Changed this as you instructed and it did the trick. Thanks a bunch!
"Max Cached Icons"="2048" "
This doesn't exist on my system (Home edition SP1)
"After making sure the entries in the registry appear as above, delete C:\Windows\shelliconcache (a hidden file)"
This folder doesn't exist either.
"[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"Shell Icon BPP"="16"
"Shell Icon Size"="32" "
Changed this as you instructed and it did the trick. Thanks a bunch!
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