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Icons appear as black squares in the Control Panel, or the wrong icon image is displayed for the control.

Cause:

If the icons are only displayed incorrectly in the control panel; such as the icons only appearing black or the wrong image, the cause may be a damaged "ShellIconCache" file in the Windows folder. Windows caches the icon images to improve video performance when redrawing the desktop.

Solution:

To force Windows 95 to rebuild the icon cache file, restart the computer in Safe mode. Use Windows Explorer to remove the file called "ShellIconCache" from the Windows directory. (You must be able to view all files, including hidden files: click options on the view menu in Windows Explorer, click Show All Files, then click OK.) After deleting the ShellIconCache file, restart Windows 95 normally. Windows 95 will rebuild the file on startup.

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