ALL icons missing...from entire system...!

uncle: back in File Explorer. Yes, I want to see if you have permissions for that certain file or not.
Speedy Gonzo: You are 100% correct. I want to see if you have permission (within the certain account) to see if your account has permissions to access that file or not. So yes, creating the New Text Document into the other accounts defeats the purpose of those other accounts. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Each account needs to be checked if you access to that folder. But as a matter of fact, try to delete the iconcache.db file from your other accounts from the admin account, since your icons seem to work inside your admin account. and you seem to have access permissions to those other accounts. So delete the iconcache.db files from there

I get message that windows cannot find that file

Can you copy and paste here exactly what you put in there please?

Have you tried replacing your imageres.dll in system32 by extracting a new one from a Win10 .ISO suitable to your system as in pro or home x32 or x64

C:\Users\Laurie\AppData\\Local\IconCache.db

Okay, let's try again. Notice how you have two "slashes" after AppData? Make sure there is only one "slash"

and try again.

had one extra "back slash" but I re-did it properly

same thing happens with only 1 slash?

yessir...!

pepanee said:

type this in the address bar above: C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\Local\IconCache.db

replace "[YOUR USER NAME]" with your user name.

press enter.

What happens?

If I do that, I get a pop up that says "You are attempting to open a file that is type 'System File (db)" with a "Show Apps" that is basically saying what app do I want to use to open this db system file. I have no application installed that is set to open a db file. If I open it with Note Pad I just see gibberish.