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    From pinnerite@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 5 18:00:58 2023
    If I click refresh, they flash on and off again.
    Never happened before.
    Seems like an update issue.
    Anyone else experienced/solved it?


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/04/2023 18:00, pinnerite wrote:<br>
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    <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">If I click refresh, they flash on and off again.
    Never happened before.
    Seems like an update issue.
    Anyone else experienced/solved it?


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    No, never had any such experience but I'm an experienced Windows
    user unlike you lot who are spending more time tinkering with all
    sorts of things instead of trying to learn how best to control the
    Windows machine. This requires a very strong will power which most
    of you lack here.<br>
    <br>
    See this image to see if you can work out how to get your icons
    back.<br>
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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Wed Apr 5 18:40:39 2023
    On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 18:00:58 +0100
    pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

    If I click refresh, they flash on and off again.
    Never happened before.
    Seems like an update issue.
    Anyone else experienced/solved it?


    OK I found the answer.

    Usually if you right-click on the desktiop and then on View, you should see at the foot of the menu the option "Show desktop icons".

    Mine was missing.

    The solution was to click Start, then Settings->Personalization then Taskbar. Under taskbar find "Use peek to preview the desktop" and turn it on.
    Save and reboot Win-10.

    Have a good one.

    Alan

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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Thu Apr 6 11:48:24 2023
    On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 18:40:39 +0100
    pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 18:00:58 +0100
    pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

    If I click refresh, they flash on and off again.
    Never happened before.
    Seems like an update issue.
    Anyone else experienced/solved it?


    OK I found the answer.

    Usually if you right-click on the desktiop and then on View, you should see at the foot of the menu the option "Show desktop icons".

    Mine was missing.

    The solution was to click Start, then Settings->Personalization then Taskbar. Under taskbar find "Use peek to preview the desktop" and turn it on.
    Save and reboot Win-10.

    Have a good one.

    Alan


    I spoke too soon. After this mornings powew-up, the same story.
    None of the above steps had worked.

    Misery guts.




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  • From Stan Brown@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Thu Apr 6 12:52:07 2023
    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:48:24 +0100, pinnerite wrote:
    I spoke too soon. After this mornings powew-up, the same story.
    None of the above steps had worked.


    Have you tried restarting File Explorer? (Open any folder, then
    Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager. In T.M. right-click on Explorer
    and select Restart.)

    If that doesn't do it, try a reboot. My hunch is that something just
    got into a bad state, and restarting File Manager will fix it, or
    failing that restarting Windows.

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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to Stan Brown on Thu Apr 6 23:11:45 2023
    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:52:07 -0700
    Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:48:24 +0100, pinnerite wrote:
    I spoke too soon. After this mornings powew-up, the same story.
    None of the above steps had worked.


    Have you tried restarting File Explorer? (Open any folder, then Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager. In T.M. right-click on Explorer
    and select Restart.)

    If that doesn't do it, try a reboot. My hunch is that something just
    got into a bad state, and restarting File Manager will fix it, or
    failing that restarting Windows.

    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
    Shikata ga nai...

    I had to wait for yet another update to finish on start-up.
    Sadly none of your suggestions worked.

    I have rebooted yet again (it's a virtual Windows 10).
    It's Mum is Mint assisted by VirtualBox.
    No change.

    Regards

    Alan



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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to pinnerite on Fri Apr 7 20:55:12 2023
    On 4/6/2023 6:11 PM, pinnerite wrote:
    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:52:07 -0700
    Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:48:24 +0100, pinnerite wrote:
    I spoke too soon. After this mornings powew-up, the same story.
    None of the above steps had worked.


    Have you tried restarting File Explorer? (Open any folder, then
    Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager. In T.M. right-click on Explorer
    and select Restart.)

    If that doesn't do it, try a reboot. My hunch is that something just
    got into a bad state, and restarting File Manager will fix it, or
    failing that restarting Windows.

    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
    Shikata ga nai...

    I had to wait for yet another update to finish on start-up.
    Sadly none of your suggestions worked.

    I have rebooted yet again (it's a virtual Windows 10).
    It's Mum is Mint assisted by VirtualBox.
    No change.

    Regards

    Alan

    The only thing I would not do here, is the "sfc /scannow",
    because at present, no symptoms suggest it.

    https://www.nucleustechnologies.com/blog/thumbnails-preview-not-showing-in-windows/

    Using cleanmgr.exe to clear thumbnails, does seem to work, but the
    database files do come back. After a reboot, the

    iconcache_16.db
    iconcache_32.db
    iconcache+48.db

    are back to 1024KB again each.

    Although I have pictures of a lot of graphics cards type
    stuff, I don't think that really has anything to do with
    this problem. Even if your disk drive the container is on,
    is slow, the icons should eventually appear. That leaves
    corrupted databases (or, the setting you already selected)
    as candidates.

    I know your graphics card (4250/4550) has issues, but I feel for the most
    part, the environment inside the VM is isolated from those issues.

    Paul

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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to Paul on Sat Apr 8 11:57:44 2023
    On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 20:55:12 -0400
    Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

    On 4/6/2023 6:11 PM, pinnerite wrote:
    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:52:07 -0700
    Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:

    On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 11:48:24 +0100, pinnerite wrote:
    I spoke too soon. After this mornings powew-up, the same story.
    None of the above steps had worked.


    Have you tried restarting File Explorer? (Open any folder, then
    Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager. In T.M. right-click on Explorer
    and select Restart.)

    If that doesn't do it, try a reboot. My hunch is that something just
    got into a bad state, and restarting File Manager will fix it, or
    failing that restarting Windows.

    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
    Shikata ga nai...

    I had to wait for yet another update to finish on start-up.
    Sadly none of your suggestions worked.

    I have rebooted yet again (it's a virtual Windows 10).
    It's Mum is Mint assisted by VirtualBox.
    No change.

    Regards

    Alan

    The only thing I would not do here, is the "sfc /scannow",
    because at present, no symptoms suggest it.

    https://www.nucleustechnologies.com/blog/thumbnails-preview-not-showing-in-windows/

    Using cleanmgr.exe to clear thumbnails, does seem to work, but the
    database files do come back. After a reboot, the

    iconcache_16.db
    iconcache_32.db
    iconcache+48.db

    are back to 1024KB again each.

    Although I have pictures of a lot of graphics cards type
    stuff, I don't think that really has anything to do with
    this problem. Even if your disk drive the container is on,
    is slow, the icons should eventually appear. That leaves
    corrupted databases (or, the setting you already selected)
    as candidates.

    I know your graphics card (4250/4550) has issues, but I feel for the most part, the environment inside the VM is isolated from those issues.

    Paul

    Thanks Paul,
    I followed the link and it solved my problem.

    Regards, Alan



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