You could try rebuilding the icon cache ??
I don't think it will help, but it won't hurt anything, and it only takes like a minute.
This tutorial will show you how to rebuild the icon cache to clear and reset it for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11. The icons that display for files in Windows are saved in an icon cache so they can be displayed quickly instead of having to manually scan and slowly load them each...
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Or, like most of us... now that you're finding your way around Windows 11... do an In-Place Upgrade, to fix everything...
to give yourself a fresh start. Then, just do your personalizations again.
Sure, it might take a 1/2 day to do all your personalization, but you can also... make a folder on your storage drive called: Win 11 Tweaks or whatever... and save all your tweaks in there. Reg patches, texts reminding yourself what you changed, pics of major Settings changes... etc.
This is my 22H2 tweaks that aren't already in my Win 10 tweaks folder...
This tutorial will show you how to do a repair install of Windows 11 by performing an in-place upgrade without losing anything. If you need to repair or create a new recovery partition or having problems with the Windows 11 operating system on your PC, and the usual solutions will not fix it...
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Here is the short version of the In-place upgrade tutorial...
DISABLE non-Microsoft:
a) antivirus software
b) firewall software
c) drive encryption software
Make a full OS backup with a program like Macrium Reflect or AOMEI Backupper Standard
Macrium Reflect
AOMEI Backupper Standard
Get the Windows 11 ISO image and save it to your desktop...
This tutorial will show you how to download an official Windows Server or Windows 11 64-bit or ARM64 ISO file from Microsoft. Microsoft provides ISO files for Windows Server and Windows 11 to download. You can use these ISO files to clean install or in-place upgrade Windows 11. The Flight Hub...
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Right click the ISO image and choose:
MOUNT
Open File Explorer and you will see a new drive letter. It will "look" like a DVD optical drive.
Double click the new drive letter to open it.
Find
setup.exe and double click it to start the in-place upgrade.
Choose the
Keep personal files and apps option.
After it's all done... to UNmount the ISO image, right click the new drive letter and choose:
EJECT.
The ONLY thing you will lose is some of your personalizations.
Your drivers, programs and data will be intact.
Most of the common tweaks are collected, here...
These are tweaks I've seen asked for... many times. They are collected here for easy access. All of these and more can be found in the Eleven Forum Tutorials section. Make sure to read the "notes" in the various tutorials. At the bottom of the first post in all the "tutorials", there are...
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