The icons on the desktop, in Explorer or in the Start menu are all displayed in a specific part of the Working memory gelagert. Dieser Teil wird Iconcache genannt und kann auch durch seine limitierte Größe (er fasst insgesamt 500 Icons) durcheinandergeraten – es werden dann Icons überschrieben und verschoben. Wenn Windows nun z.B. das Icon vom Arbeitsplatz anzeigen möchte ist es nicht mehr an der gleichen Stelle: Es wird dann ein vollkommen anderes Symbol angezeigt.
It is therefore advisable to increase the so-called icon cache to prevent such errors from occurring in the first place.
Conveniently set the size of the icon cache
1. Click in succession on Start/Execute and enter the command regedit in.
2. Now shimmy through the keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer and right-click in the right-hand pane.
3. Now select from the context menu that appears, New/string and name this newly created value Max Cached Icons (Please note spaces).
4. now double-click on it and enter the number 2000.
A restart should be sufficient for your symbols to be displayed correctly again. A whopping 2000 symbols are now loaded into the working memory!
NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.
