Application Icons Missing

I removed a shortcut for MS Visual Studio 2010 and the application icon became a white page. This is obviously not preferred so I struck out to figure out why. Apparently the icon cache database was out of sync and need to be rebuilt.
Open up the command prompt and input the following commands:

• ​taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
• CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
• DEL IconCache.db /a
• shutdown /r /f /t 00

That should rebuild your IconCache.db and get your icons working properly again.
The steps are also at the following website with a nice .bat for those of you that don't want to do it manually.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html