How to bring back my default icons?

original title: HOW can I GET MY ICONS by DEFAULT RETURN?

just today... My music and video thumbnails all look the same... they used to look like... Well well... music icons were a note blue eighth at square... research and the .have been videos like glimpse looking for icons... I could see an image of the video, as a small screenshot...
now... my mp3 music icons and my video icons all alike... some little thing movie blue-band... What happened... How can I reset the default views... it's very annoying... Thanks to anyone who can help me with this... Ive been frustrated by this whole day.
Help, please...

Hi Philipearl,

You can try these:
(A) activate the preview of thumbnails
1. click on the file-Type options start-> open Folder Options.
2. click on the view tab
3. to turn ON the folder and file preview - thumbnails
Uncheck the box always show icons, never thumbnails.
4. click on OK.

(B) rebuild the icon Cache
1. click on the file-Type options start-> open Folder Options. Click the view tab, select Show hidden folders and files. Click Ok.
2. open a Windows Explorer window.
3. go to C:\Users\(User Name) \AppData\Local
4. right click on IconCache.db and click on delete.
5. click on Yes to confirm the deletion.
NOTE: this deletes the file to the trash. It is safe to empty the trash when you are done.
6. close the window.
7 empty the trash.
8 restart the computer.
9. When you return, you'll notice the size of the file IconCache.db is reduced, and the update is now the current date.
NOTE: If for some reason any IconCache.db isn't there or the size has not changed much, then just restart the computer again. You may need to restart a few times in some cases.
10. the icon cache has been rebuilt.
11. Open Folder Options to select (round) do not show the hidden files and folders. Click ok, and then check if the problem persists.

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