Kill then restart explorer.exe

[Mircea M]

Hi,

due to a change in the icon of our application in the new version, I need to rebuild the Windows icon cache. Deleting the IconCache.db file works but in order to show the new icon to the user immediately, I need to restart the explorer.exe process. Again, killing it is no problem but when I want to restart it, instead of getting the start menu, desktop, etc. back, I only get a Windows Explorer window.

If I restart the process manually (Task Manager -> File -> new Task -> explorer.exe), the desktop, start menu and new icons are there.

Any idea how to achieve this through the installer?

Here's my code:

code:
Function IconCacheRebuild

	ExecWait "taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe"

	Delete "$LOCALAPPDATA\IconCache.db"

	ExecWait "explorer.exe"

FunctionEnd

Thanks!

[JasonFriday13]

Try this:

!define SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED 0x8000000
!define SHCNF_IDLIST 0

System::Call 'Shell32::SHChangeNotify(i ${SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED}, i ${SHCNF_IDLIST}, p0, p0)'

[Mircea M]

Jason, you're a life-saver! Thanks!