Windows 10: Flashing Thumbnails and Desktop Icons 2019

I have this problem when I navigate with Windows Explorer into certain Folders.

Desktop Icons flash between outline and picture. File Thumbnails flash between outlines and Thumbnails. Green bar never finishes. Computer is almost unusable and Windows Explorer has to be killed with Task Manager then can be restarted with Task Manager (Run/explorer).


Many suggestions to Rebuild Icons and Thumbnails do not help, problem immediately recurs when I navigate into certain directories.


Terrible policy for Microsoft to LOCK THREADS so if subsequent solutions are found they cannot be posted!!!!

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After installing windows 10, desktop has no icons and flashes

Any suggestions?

 

Cannot change desktop icon

Sometimes a desktop icon changes from what it was to a plain white folder. Might be something I did but not sure what.

To change it to the icon I want, I go:

1. Rt-click icon > Properties > Change icon
2. I select the icon I want from the thumbnails of icons.
3. Click OK
4. Click Apply

But the icon does not change. It just stays looking like a white folder.
HOWEVER, if I pin the icon to the taskbar, the icon on the taskbar does look like the icon I selected in step-2. So the change is registered with Win10 but the icon on the desktop just doesn't change.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

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.