All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do? Intended For Windows Me Windows 98 Windows 95 Delete the file ShellIconCache in your Windows directory, and restart (note that it's hidden, so you'll have to show hidden files to find it). TweakUI also has a feature to repair your icons, although it may not repair all of them (such as Internet Shortcut icons). Written by: Annoyances.org Last updated: Thursday, December 6, 2001 Care to discuss this article with other Windows users? Select your operating system here, and click Continue to post your question. - Choose your OS -Windows 7Windows VistaWindows Server 2003Windows XPWindows 2000Windows MeWindows 98Windows 95 Previous discussions about this article: (open a message to see applicable responses, if any) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (alan: Tuesday, August 14, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Jerry Morgan: Monday, September 3, 2001) [Windows 95] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Jimmy: Thursday, September 13, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (drew: Friday, September 21, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Enid Powell: Thursday, October 11, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Doug Montgomery: Thursday, November 22, 2001) [Windows 95] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Greg: Wednesday, December 5, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Ross-man: Thursday, December 27, 2001) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Margaret hein: Sunday, December 30, 2001) [Windows 98] Taskbar icons (Mark: Wednesday, January 30, 2002) [Windows 2000] ico files do not display correctly any more (Brian: Saturday, February 16, 2002) [Windows 98] The little arrows are back to stay (Laura: Friday, March 8, 2002) [Windows 95] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Andy: Sunday, March 31, 2002) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Jennine Knight: Monday, April 1, 2002) [Windows 95] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Philip: Wednesday, April 3, 2002) [Windows Me] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (bill: Monday, November 11, 2002) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Paul Pearson: Friday, December 20, 2002) [Windows Me] start menu icons (marc mireault : Monday, December 23, 2002) [Windows Me] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Edye: Monday, January 13, 2003) [Windows Me] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (beaner: Thursday, February 13, 2003) [Windows XP] Cannot find ShellIconCache on XP (Mary: Saturday, August 23, 2003) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Benny P. Jacob: Monday, November 17, 2003) [Windows Me] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Michael: Wednesday, June 9, 2004) [Windows 95] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Lisa: Wednesday, April 6, 2005) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (J.C.Copone,Sr: Wednesday, May 18, 2005) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Helmut Schulz: Wednesday, June 1, 2005) [Windows 98] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (patty wright: Monday, September 26, 2005) [Windows Me] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (phyllis: Saturday, November 12, 2005) [Windows Me] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do?' (Paula: Monday, January 1, 2007) [Windows XP] Question about 'All of my desktop icons just became corrupted - what do I do? When i turn on pc i get new desktop' (Vidhu: Tuesday, August 5, 2008) Return to "Troubleshooting"