After years of annoyance about generic icons (mostly media files) I decided to figure out this problem during the holidays. I spent two days researching the internet. Normally you can find there any solution to any Windows problem within a blink but for this topic there are only a few people who took the time to bring this to question. The most articles in the internet describe a slightly different problem about generic icons at the desktop and advice to delete the iconcache.db, temporarily change the icon size or style, increase the Max Cached Icons key in the registry, using utilities to rep
