Repairing and Retoring Icons

• in Windows XP

The reasons are either the icon cache which stores this icon information is damaged or corrupted. Uninstalling TweakUI has also fixed the issue in some cases.

• in Windows Vista

Method 1: Refresing Icon Cache
1. Right-click on the Desktop.
2. Select Personalize and select Display Settings.
3. Change the Color from 32 bit to 16 bit and click Apply.
4. Change the Color back to 32 bit and click Apply.

Method 2: Rebuilding Icon Cache
1. Click on the Vista logo (similar to the "Start" button).
2. In the "Start Search" box type type CMD or CMD.EXE and Hit Enter.
3.You may need to kill explorer before rebuilding the icon cache.
To do this, following either of these:
A. Kill Explorer.exe from Task Manager.
B. Run the following line from the command prompt opened above:

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f

4. Run the following commands one by one as shown below to complete the task:

CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib –h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db

5. Run explorer.exe or restart your machine.

Bir klasörü dış ve içini şekillendirmek

desktop.ini örnek 1;
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00c04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=kaynak\x.png
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=kaynak\x.ico
IconIndex=0
[.ShellClassInfo.A]
[.ShellClassInfo.W]
InfoTip=not...

bu örnek kaynak isimli klasörden ico ve pgn dosyalarını alır.


desktop.ini örnek 2;
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
ICONAREA_IMAGE=x.bmp

sadece arka planı değiştirir.


desktop.ini örnek 3;
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=119

sadece icon değişir ve ayrıca windowsun default bir iconunu kullanır üstelik.

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How to Disable Vista Aero Glass Transparency Effect

To disable Windows Aero or switch between Aero Glass and Aero Basic themes (or any of the other themes):
1. Right-click on any blank spot on desktop area.
2. On the pop up right click contextual menu, and select “Personalize”.
3. Select “Windows Color and Appearance” option.
4. If you just want to disable Transparency, simply uncheck the “Enable Transparency” option.
5. To disable the Windows Aero theme altogether, click on the “Open classic apperance properties for more color options” link located at the bottom of Window Color and Apperance window.
6. In the Appearance Setting dialog box, select Windows Vista Basic or any other themes listed in the “Color Scheme” except Windows Aero such as Windows Standard which looks similar to Windows 2000 user interface style to disable Windows Aero.
7. Click OK.
If you want to go through the path of Control Panel in Windows Vista, here the links that you should clicked:
1. Click on Start button, and then click on Control Panel.
2. Click on “Appearance and Personalization”.
3. Under the section of Personalization, click “Change the color scheme” link.
4. You will see the same Appearance Settings dialog. So just select Windows Vista Basic or any other non-Aero themes.
5. Click OK.