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    How to Clear Your Live Tile Cache on Start in Windows 10
    Published by Shawn BrinkCategory:
    26 Feb 2020


    How to Clear Your Live Tile Cache on Start in Windows 10

    The live tiles for apps pinned to your Start screen cache the data that flips across them. Sometimes when you delete something, the cached version will still show up on the live tile of an app.

    Clearing the live tile cache will reset the live tiles to update them.

    This tutorial will show you how to clear the live tile cache for your account in Windows 10.

    You can look at the value of the ResetCacheCount DWORD in the registry key below to see how many times your live tile cache has been reset after being reset using the downloadable .bat file.

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\StateStore
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    EXAMPLE: Live tiles on Start
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    Here's How:

    1 Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .bat file below.


    Clear_Live_Tile_cache.bat

    Download

    Contents of the .bat file for reference:

    @echo off
    REG ADD "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell\StateStore" /V ResetCache /T REG_DWORD /D 1 /F
    taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
    start explorer.exe


    2 Save the .bat file to your desktop.

    3 Unblock the .bat file.

    4 Run the .bat file.

    5 You will now notice your screen flicker as a command prompt quickly opens and closes to run the command to reset the live tile cache, then restarts the explorer process to apply.

    That's it,
    Shawn

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  1. oneLess

    Posts : 44

    ten 64

    New#1


    Q:

    ResetCacheCount

    as in picture
    or
    ResetCache as in bat ?

    /edit
    I think is ResetCache
    with 1 on ResetCache , after boot
    ResetCache get 0 as value and ResetCacheCount get [old_value+1]

    c

    My Computer

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  2. Brink

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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

    Thread Starter

    New#2


    Hello C, :)

    Setting ResetCache to 1 and restarting explorer process is what resets the live tile cache.

    After explorer as been restarted, ResetCache gets automatically set back to 0 (non-reset state), and the ResetCacheCount value automatically increases by 1 for how many total times the live tile cache has been reset.

    My Computers

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  3. oneLess

    Posts : 44

    ten 64

    New#3


    Brink said:

    Hello C, :)

    Setting ResetCache to 1 and restarting explorer process is what resets the live tile cache.

    After explorer as been restarted, ResetCache gets automatically set back to 0 (non-reset state), and the ResetCacheCount value automatically increases by 1 for how many total times the live tile cache has been reset.

    So, its time to update Tip and first picture

    c

    My Computer

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  4. Brink

    Posts : 73,926

    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

    Thread Starter

    New#4


    The tutorial pretty much already states all that.

    My Computers

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