icons disappearing

[Kurisu Makise]

so i have all my apps pinned to the taskbar and my game icons on the left side of the desktop but for some reason a few of game icons seem to vanish but never the apps. i tried searching for crysis 2 for example and it doesnt even show up in the search just like any of the ones that disappear frustrating me now as i have to make a new icon from the disk, has anyone got a clue whats happening here?

thanks

 

[deanolfc]

icon cache could me corrupted
go into c drive then over to organize select 'folder and search option' then to 'view' then select 'show hidden files, folders and drives' apply and ok

then back to c drive then users , user name, app data then local and you will find the icon cache in there delete it and restart the computer this will rebuild it for you.

 

[Kurisu Makise]

ok iv done that but nothing changed, i found out that the game files have deleted themselves but not the steam ones only the games from disc. if they have been deleted why would they still show up in programs and features?

 

[CrazyWabbit]

Icon cache has corrupted . Start up a command prompt with administrator rights .
Paste the following in it will clear your Icon cache and force it to rebuild .

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
shutdown /r