How to rebuild the icon cache in Windows 11

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Windows 11 uses the icon cache extensively to display icons of applications and other elements of the operating system. It is designed to speed up the loading and display of icons.

Sometimes, issues may arise. A common issue is corruption of the icon cache. This may lead to the display of wrong, old, duplicate, missing, or broken icons and other issues.

The reason for this, most of the time, is corruption of the icon cache. The solution in that case is to rebuild the icon cache.

This guide explains how that is done on Windows 11. The same method works on Windows 10 as well.

Rebuilding the icon cache in Windows 11



 You can rebuild the icon cache using a single command. Here is how that is done:

1. Use the keyboard shortcut Windows-X to display the administrative menu.
   
2. Select Terminal from the menu.
   
3. Confirm the security prompt by selecting the option yes.
   
4. Paste the command "ie4uinit.exe -show" and press the Enter-key.
   

Note that you do not get a response; this is normal and nothing to worry about.

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