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TScwteoh1
post Jun 2 2017, 11:37 AM, updated 9y ago

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Hi Sifu,

want to ask any of Win10 users facing this king of problem as every time get windows update then all the folder become square black in colour just like photo shown below:

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Happen 2 times already. First time happen after uninstall windows update then back to normal but this time not able to do so.

any reasons or suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks
matiko95
post Jun 2 2017, 11:43 AM

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QUOTE(cwteoh1 @ Jun 2 2017, 11:37 AM)
Hi Sifu,

want to ask any of Win10 users facing this king of problem as every time get windows update then all the folder become square black in colour just like photo shown below:

Attached Image

Happen 2 times already. First time happen after uninstall windows update then back to normal but this time not able to do so.

any reasons or suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks
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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...af-495c15897886

the solution is last paragraph of last post

TScwteoh1
post Jun 2 2017, 12:57 PM

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QUOTE(matiko95 @ Jun 2 2017, 11:43 AM)
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...af-495c15897886

the solution is last paragraph of last post
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Done on it but problem still the same. any other trick to do so?
TScwteoh1
post Jun 2 2017, 01:05 PM

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but after change the folder size to 125% everything look find

thank matiko95 for your help
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post Jun 2 2017, 07:07 PM

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QUOTE(cwteoh1 @ Jun 2 2017, 01:05 PM)
but after change the folder size to 125% everything look find

thank matiko95 for your help
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just rebuild your icon cache

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5645-re...ndows-10-a.html

CODE
:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: http://www.sevenforums.com
:: Tutorial:  http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

@echo off
set iconcache=%localappdata%\IconCache.db

echo The Explorer process must be killed to delete the Icon DB.
echo.
echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing.
echo.
pause
echo.
If exist "%iconcache%" goto delID
echo.
echo Icon DB has already been deleted.
echo.
pause
exit /B

:delID
echo Attempting to delete Icon DB...
echo.
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
del "%iconcache%" /A
echo.
echo Icon DB has been successfully deleted.
echo.
start explorer.exe
pause
exit /B


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TScwteoh1
post Jun 5 2017, 09:11 AM

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QUOTE(cstkl1 @ Jun 2 2017, 07:07 PM)
just rebuild your icon cache

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5645-re...ndows-10-a.html

CODE
:: Created by: Shawn Brink
:: http://www.sevenforums.com
:: Tutorial:  http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

@echo off
set iconcache=%localappdata%\IconCache.db

echo The Explorer process must be killed to delete the Icon DB.
echo.
echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing.
echo.
pause
echo.
If exist "%iconcache%" goto delID
echo.
echo Icon DB has already been deleted.
echo.
pause
exit /B

:delID
echo Attempting to delete Icon DB...
echo.
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
del "%iconcache%" /A
echo.
echo Icon DB has been successfully deleted.
echo.
start explorer.exe
pause
exit /B

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Had tried on this matter and will monitor further n see whether it happen back again or not.

Thanks
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