Rebuilding the Vista icon cache

I just needed to reset the icon cache (changed an icon in my shell folder) and found that I needed to do these steps:

To purge your icon cache:

·         kill explorer

·         in a cmd window go to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local

·         attrib –h IconCache.db

·         del IconCache.db

·         start explorer

 

And then your updated icon will be reflected in the UI.

[Update: removed error about needing an elevated command window.]