Question Windows desktop icons "refresh" out of nowhere, still there after DISM and sfc runs

[heinmichaelsen]

Well, title basically. Out of nowhere everything (icons, sometime) seems to refresh, and it does so no matter what I'm doing - or NOT doing. Have tried disabling more or less everything and googled it. Google says it's due to corrupt system files...? So ran a dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /the three command line things, and then a sfc /scannow. All completed, still happening. I'd estimate the screen flickers every sayy 10 minutes or so. Has happened on two display driver versions. Any pointers?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Scan your system for viruses and malware

 

[heinmichaelsen]

Scan your system for viruses and malware

I actually didn't think about that at all. Cheers, will try. What's recommended in the antivirus/antimalware department these days?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

I just use built in Windows Defender for the antivirus and Malwarebytes for everything else.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

if those don't find anything, you can try to rebuild the icon cache.

just save this to a batch file, name it anything, like reseticondb.bat, and run it as an administrator

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
del IconCache.db /a
start explorer.exe

 

[heinmichaelsen]

if those don't find anything, you can try to rebuild the icon cache.

just save this to a batch file, name it anything, like reseticondb.bat, and run it as an administrator

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
del IconCache.db /a
start explorer.exe

Allright, thanks again! Nothing found in scans. Have deleted the db-file manually, so will just wait and see if it happens again.

 

[heinmichaelsen]

Still happening after virus and malware scan, and the icon cache db. Is there a sort of system log file somewhere I can check immediately after a hickup to see what's going on?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

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