Desktop icons going blank.

My desktop icons Keep going blank
I have deleted the icon cache every time,
Twenty minutes later or so they go blank again.Is there another way of stopping this happening again.

Hey, there,

Can you capture a screenshot showing what exactly is happening?

Clearing icon cache would be my first recommendation but since clearing icon cache doesn't work for you here are other things to try:

1. Rebuild your icon cache.
. Close all open applications.
. Open File Explorer.
. Navigate to the following location: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local
. Delete the IconCache.db file.
. Restart your computer.
Windows will rebuild the IconCache.db file when you start your computer.
Note: If you are unable to delete the IconCache.db file, you can try restarting your computer in Safe Mode.

2. Make sure you have no corrupt system files that is causing this problem. Open a command prompt as administrator and type sfc /scannow
Pay attention to the scan results to see if SFC found anything it could not repair. If it found corruption it could not fix followup with this command (note the spaces)
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
Restart computer

3. disable Tablet mode if your device uses it. Settings> System > Tablet mode and then toggle off the When I sign in, automatically switch to tablet mode option.

4. If you are using any third party app that changes the GUI, try uninstalling it. Reboot and see if issue still occurs.

5. Disable Widgets. Enable or Disable Widgets Feature in Windows 11 Tutorial

6. Update graphics driver

7. Perform a clean boot to eliminate software conflict causing the issue. If it doesn't happen in a clean boot, you have some software conflicting with Windows. Brink's procedure will help you weed out which one. Perform a Clean Boot in Windows 11 to Troubleshoot Software Conflicts Tutorial

James1960 said:

My desktop icons Keep going blank
I have deleted the icon cache every time,
Twenty minutes later or so they go blank again.Is there another way of stopping this happening again.

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You could do all that or wait for a fix as reported a few flights ago in Dev.

• Fixed an underlying issue causing desktop icons to all go blank in the last few flights.
  
  

  Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23516

  Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 23516 to the Dev Channel. August 2023 Bug Bash: Starting today August 2nd, the bug bash begins and will run through Monday A

  blogs.windows.com

The fix did not stick however as I still have the bug in Canary and less so in Dev.
Since your system specs seem to refer to some obscure football club or never-heard of hamlet--,
we don't know what channel or version of Windows 11 you are using.
Of course, right-clicking on the desktop and choosing Refresh helps.

Update: The Windows Insider Program

"The fix...."

Fire everyone and hire people that know what they're doing.

90% of the world would be unemployed.

I was on a Microsoft chat once, including screen sharing and phone conversation.
I got the older oriental lady. She didn't even use a mouse, just keyboard shortcuts.

She was fast as greased lightning, and did stuff I didn't even know was possible.
Stuff I never even heard of. And she was typing everything live in real time.
She was doing things with program windows... that I don't think anyone has ever heard of.

She was awesome... I bet she could make an OS that didn't have bugs.

Ghot said:

She didn't even use a mouse, just keyboard shortcuts

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Well if they depended on this old lady to use only keyboard shortcuts, they would be s*1T out of luck. I can remember only 3.

glasskuter said:

Well if they depended on this old lady to use only keyboard shortcuts, they would be s*1T out of luck. I can remember only 3.

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Same... but the only one I remember is Ctrl + Esc to open the START Menu.
Well and ctrl+alt+del and alt+F4?

Oh yeah... and alt+tab

I guess the thing that impressed me the most was she was live typing these super long (2 and 3 line), commands in the command prompt window. No copy/paste, she just knew them off by heart.

She was probably raised in some country where they only spoke... Assembly language.



Like that guy in "Matrix" who could "see" the girl in the red dress... in the lines of code.