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Icon Problem in Windows 7

This document discusses a common issue with icons corrupting in Windows 7 and provides a potential fix. The issue seems to stem from the way Windows 7 caches icons. Increasing the size of the icon cache by modifying a registry key can help resolve the problem. Specifically, creating a "Max Cached Icons" string value in the registry and increasing the default value from 500 to 4096 or more may prevent further icon corruption issues.

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Icon Problem in Windows 7

This document discusses a common issue with icons corrupting in Windows 7 and provides a potential fix. The issue seems to stem from the way Windows 7 caches icons. Increasing the size of the icon cache by modifying a registry key can help resolve the problem. Specifically, creating a "Max Cached Icons" string value in the registry and increasing the default value from 500 to 4096 or more may prevent further icon corruption issues.

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Icon Problem in Windows 7

Always seemed to have this issue with 7.


All the fixes mentioned above are not really going to fix the problem. The issue seems to stem
from how Windows 7 handles the caching of icons. You need to increase the cache size and
this should get rid of corruption:
1. Navigate to the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
2. Create a REG_SZ (string value) called "Max Cached Icons" (omit quotes but includethe
spaces)
3. The default value is way too low(500). Bump it to 4096 (4MB) or more, I do
8192(8MB).(edit: you won't actually see a default value as this will be a newly created string,
I meant to say it is default to Windows)
4. Reboot and you should be good to go.

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