Corrupted IMiS/Client tree view icons in Windows Explorer

Product:	IMiS/Client
Release:	9.5.1510
Date:	06/20/2016

Case:

IMiS/Client integrates into Windows Explorer as a namespace extension and provides user a simple and intuitive interface for managing IMiS/ARChive entities and configuration. IMiS/Client tree view icons can occasionally get mixed or incorrect icons are being displayed. This is a known Windows Explorer issue linked to its icon cache. The solution for this is to rebuild the icon cache and/or increase the size limitation for the icon cache.

Description:

There are different ways you can try to fix IMiS/Client corrupted tree view icons:

* Delete icon cache file(s) and restart computer.

* Kill Windows Explorer process in TaskManager, delete icon cache file(s) and restart Windows Explorer process from TaskManager.

* Click Start button, launch Run and run the following command to clear the icon cache:

Windows 7:
ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache

Windows 10:
ie4uinit.exe -show

Icon cache location:

Windows 7:
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\

Icon cache is one file: IconCache.db

Windows 10:
C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

Icon cache are several files: iconcache*.db

You can also try to increase the size limitation for the icon cache:

* Run regedit.exe and create the "Max Cached Icons" registry string value under the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

Set its value to "2048" (default value is 500, valid range is from 100 to 4096).

Sources:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/rebuild-the-icon-cache-windows
http://www.howtogeek.com/232779/how-to-rebuild-a-broken-icon-cache-in-windows-10
http://superuser.com/questions/499078/refresh-icon-cache-without-rebooting
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/268478-icon-cache-size-change-windows.html
http://www.computing.net/howtos/show/icon-cache-how-it-works-and-fixing-it/822.html
http://smallvoid.com/article/windows-icon-cache.html
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/132668

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