Fix blank or white box on Windows 7 shortcuts

Like the screen shot above, the shortcuts does not look normally and not good for viewing. The reason is the database of the icon cache is corrupt or damaged. The solution is we have to reset or refresh or rebuild the database from these icons. Here are the steps to reset or rebuild the database icon.

1. Open Windows Explorer and select Show hidden files option. In Windows Explorer window click Organize -> Folder and Search Options -> View tab, and select Show hidden files, folders and drives then "uncheck" Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
2. Go to the following folders:

C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\ where xxxxx is the user that you use to login.

1. Find the file IconCache.db and delete that file
2. Open Notepad and select File Menu -> Save As
3. Give the name IconCache.db, file type -> All files
4. Save to the location was the same with the original files that we have removed
5. Right-click the file IconCache.db and set its file attributes to Read-Only
6. Restart your computer
7. After restart, remove the Read-Only attribute from files IconCache.db
8. Done.