Windows 10: How can I turn off the various images on the folder icon on windows 10 desktop?

When a folder is on the desktop, and the folder has files inside, thumbnails of those files will appear inside the folder icon. I like a uniform desktop, and this goes against everything I stand for. How can I make all folders have the same icon as a new folder, regardless of the files inside?

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Windows 10 desktop icons not in order

In ccleaner, did you uncheck cleaning the icon cache... have not used in a while; however, I think that is what the option is called.

Now, if you are setting the icons and they move after you have set the settings and not changed them... you may have the "Random Windows 10 Icon movement problem".
Some people have this and some don't.

Here is a thread on the problem at Windows10 forums: Windows 10: Folder View Settings and Desktop Icon Positions Not Saving

 

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.

 

Where does Windows 10 get the Desktop Icons from (the various Desktop sources)?

Sorry, but I have been re-searching for several hours now, and can't find a Post I read early this morning.

The post had a list of places that Windows 10 uses to assemble the various icons on my Desktop, and the order of which areas are used.

There were about 5 things in the list and it looked something like:

- general icons for all screens (I found that in the Theme screen)

- icons from the logged-in Users\xxx\Desktop

- icons from the Users\Public\Desktop

- and maybe from the Desktop folder under the "This PC" folder or "Onedrive" folder

I am not even sure the above is correct, but it was something like that. Do to some changes I made in my OneDrive settings, most of my desktop icons have disappeared (changed Auto Save Desktop setting from "This PC only" to "Onedrive"). I have the "This
PC" icon and the "Recycle Bin" icon on my Desktop (found where those came from) and I have the icons out of the Users\Public\Desktop folder on my Desktop, but am missing the icons from my Users\xxx\Desktop folder. Doesn't Windows 10 automatically assemble
the Desktop from the above various sources (i.e. I haven't' done anything and the Users\Public\Desktop icons are appearing on my Desktop).

So there are really 2 questions here: 1) what are the various sources for the Desktop icons and 2) what happened to my Users\xxx\Desktop icons (which are still in the Users\xxx\Desktop folder, but not being displayed on my Desktop.

P.S. I have another Post outstanding on understanding the differences of folders in OneDrive vs This PC vs Users\xxx\.

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