Windows 10: Desktop Icons and Taskbar icons flashing constantly - only when PDFs icons are present

Hello,


I have an incredibly strange issue. Whenever I open Windows Explorer, and navigate to a folder that has a PDF document in it, all icons flash continuously. Including desktop icons, taskbar icons, and icons next to file names in explorer. This does NOT happen if I navigate to a folder that does not include any PDF files. Same thing occurs if I save a PDF file on my desktop. Originally, I suspected that it was an issue with default programs. So I deleted Microsoft Edge and set Adobe Acrobat DC as the default for all file types it could open. Here are some of the other solutions I have attempted:


- Start in safe mode (still occurs)

- Delete iconcache.db and restart explorer process

- Delete all iconcache files in user/local/appdata/microsoft/windows/explorer

- uninstall any other software that can open PDFs, other than Adobe Acrobat DC

- Ran an sfc scan

- Uninstall Adobe Acrobat DC


All latest Windows 10 Pro updates are installed. I have ruled out this being a hardware acceleration or driver issue, considering it only occurs when explorer is open and in a folder that has a PDF in it - no other file types cause the blinking of the icons. As soon as i close the folder, the blinking stops. This has happened two other times, and each time it occurred after I opened a PDF in Edge or Chrome, and then reset the default back to Acrobat. The ONLY solution that has worked for me is to recreate my profile, however, that involves reinstalling all programs and a few days of work to get the profile back to where i need it to be. I thought I would check on here to see if someone else might have some possible solutions that I could try to avoid having to go that route. TIA!

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Remove Linux Desktop Icons

I am not sure whether this will work (Ubuntu does not have icons like that on the desktop by default), but I suggest opening the trash bin and sweeping the icons into the window showing the trash bin.

 

Removing desktop icons

the icons are located in 'all users' folder somewhere (for example, i see a few shared icons in "C:\Users\Public\Desktop" )

The only way to fix those, is to remove the icons from there, and place them on to each users desktops manually. an admin may need to do this.

 

Removing desktop icons

I want to remove some Icons from my desktop, but Vista asks for Admin permission to continue (I'm not an admin *Frown ).
It seems that whenever I delete one of these icons from my desktop, it is also removed from all the other user accounts. For example, I deleted the Skype icon from my desktop, and it was then removed from everyone elses as well.
How can I delete icons from my desktop only, without affecting anyone elses?