Wrong desktop shortcut icon on Windows 7 (Inno Setup)

Question

I have created an installer with Inno Setup. The icon used for the desktop shortcut and start menu is embeded in the application executable.

When the installer was i

Answer 1

As in swirlywonder's answer, this batch script should automate the process:

rebuild-icon-cache.bat

@echo off
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
del IconCache.db /a
start explorer.exe

Answer 2

It seems that this indeed was related to the IconCache.db file. I can only guess that something wasn't done in the right order (though I tried differing procedures more than once).

Here's how I performed the reset manually:

• Click Start button > Hold down Ctrl+Shift & Right Click on empty area in the Start Menu.
• Select "Exit Explorer".
• Hold Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys to open Task Manager.
• Select "File" > "New Task".
• Type: cmd (and press Enter). This will open the command prompt.
• Type: cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local (and press Enter)
• Type: attrib –h IconCache.db (and press Enter)
• Type: del IconCache.db (and press Enter)
• Type: start explorer (and press Enter)

Now everything renders just as it should.