Why the application desktop icons are not refreshed?

I found an issue with the desktop icons lately. The application we are using does not show the right icons after re-installation and icons shown in the previous version but the icon file is in the new version on the server. I googled and found the solution for this problem is to flush the Windows IconCache.db. I am using Windows 8 and will record the solution here as well.

1. Remove the IconCache.db file at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\ and restart
2. If not working, you can follow the steps below:

• Kill Explorer.exe process via the Task Manager.
• Open the command prompt window, type each of the following and after every command, hit the Enter button:

          cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
          attrib –h IconCache.db
          del IconCache.db
          start explorer

• Your Windows Icon Cache would have been rebuilt.

Refer to the web page that I found this solution here.