How to fix broken Start Menu and Taskbar icons in Windows

If your icons are not displaying correctly or your icon cache is corrupted like the below image, just rebuild the the Icon Cache.

To rebuild the the Icon Cache or fix this broken Start Menu ans Taskbar icons in Windows:

1.Open the Windows Explorer

2.Go to

%userprofile%\AppData\Local

and delete IconCache.db.
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QuiteRSS – Free RSS-Atom feed reader

QuiteRSS is a free open source RSS and Atom feed reader for Windows, Linux, OS/2 and Mac OS X. It supports more than 30 languages.

Main features:

Embedded webkit based browser.
Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted.
Custom user filters.
Proxy configuration: automatic or manual.
Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered.
Build in Adblocker.
Automatic update feeds: on startup, by timer.
Automatic cleanup on close using criterias.
Enable/Disable images in news preview.
Sound and Popup notification on new news.
Show new or unread news counter on tray icon.
Import/Export feeds (OPML-files).
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Vivaldi – A browser for our friends

Vivaldi is a new web browser from  Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by former co-founder and CEO of Opera, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner.It’s built on modern Web technologies like JavaScript,React,Node.js, Browserify and some NPM modules.

Main features:

Quick Commands – Search through various settings, history, open tabs, bookmarks with a single keyboard shortcut.
Notes – Take notes while browsing and add screenshots.
Speed Dials – create multiple Speed dial groups.
Tab Stacks – Organize tabs and group multiple tabs under a single tab.
Bookmarks.
Contacts.
Tab colors based on visited websites.
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MathMod – mathematical modeling tool

MathMod is a free mathematical modeling software for windows and linux that visualize and animate implicit and parametric surfaces.

Main features:

Isosurfaces and parametric surfaces support.
3D and 4D hypersurfaces support.
Rotation, scale and morph effect support.
Load scripts in Json file format.
export the result as OBJ.
Export K3DSurf (.k3ds) scripts to MathMod (.js) scripts.
Memory usage and The maximum value of the Grid for Iso/Parametric surfaces are set via the configuration file.
Integrated small editor.
Solid texturing support.
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