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Paul
Paul

Reputation: 26640

High resolution exe icon results in a low resolution icon on Windows desktop shortcut

I had a Delphi 6 application with a 16x16 icon. Recently I made the 64x64 version of it and recompiled the application.

This high-resolution icon is displayed on Windows 7 Superbar and in task manager when I run the application. It is displayed in .exe file properties.

But when I make a shortcut on desktop, it shows me a stretched low-resolution icon (16x16). When I go to this shortcut's properties - it shows me the 64x64 version. To display the High resolution icon on the shortcut I have to go to shortcut icon's properties, click on the only hi-res icon available, click "Ok" and "apply" and do this sequence twice.

If I delete the shortcut and try to create it again, it shows the 16x16 icon again until I assign the icon twice.

I have specially looked into .res file - there is only one icon.

I have cleared icons cache, logged out and logged in. Still no change of behaviour. Such a behaviour is reproducible on other computer with Windows 7.

I have no idea what is happening. Is it making the low-resolution version from high-resolution or it has cached the previous version somewhere?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1947

Answers (1)

iamjoosy
iamjoosy

Reputation: 3349

Open a command prompt window and enter:

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
DEL "%localappdata%\IconCache.db" /A
shutdown /r /f /t 00

This will rebuild the icon cache, which is very likely the source of your problem. Note, that the last command will shut down and restart your computer, so be sure to save any data before you execute the command.

Upvotes: 2

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