In Windows Vista and later, the thumbnails «thumbcache» are stored at C: \ Users \ Owner \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft Windows \ Explorer — which is the same where
the icon cache files are stored.
It is quite possible that
your Icon Cache file may be corrupted.
Not exact matches
The
Icon Cache or IconCache.db is a special database file that Windows utilizes to keep copies of each icon ha
Icon Cache or IconCache.db is a special database
file that Windows utilizes to keep copies of each
icon ha
icon handy.
If you needed to rebuild the
Icon Cache in Windows 7 / 8, you needed to do the following: Open
File Explorer > Folder Options > Views to show Hidden System
Files.
Windows Thumbnail
cache or Thumbs.db
files are hidden data -
files in the Windows operating system, which contain small images, displayed when you view a folder in «thumbnail» view, as opposed to tile,
icon, list, or detail view.
This post will show you the location of these
cache files, so that you can delete IconCache.db and thumbcache.db
files, in order to rebuild the
icon cache and clear the Thumbnail
cache in Windows 10.
In such a scenario, you may need to delete the
cache files in order to rebuild the
Icon cache and clear the Thumbnail
cache.
When Windows needs to draw an
icon, it uses the copy from the
cache instead of retrieving the
icon image from the original application
file.