Windows 10: Problem with Desktop / Explorer icons after uninstalling an unrelated driver

Hey there,


today I had to uninstall a third party driver (game controller) due to a problem it was causing and had to restart so the effects could take place. I got a short blue screen crash that was collecting information and afterwards windows proceeded to boot up as normal. But as I got to the desktop I noticed some icons looking wrong and started googling.

(The icons):




(Icons not loading in explorer):





On google I found the suggestion to rebuild the icon cache (which didnt help) and while Im writing this I currently run sfc /scannow.

So my questions are why did this happen? (Maybe a driver or something in the registry got deleted when I uninstalled the driver?) And (if sfc /scannow didnt fix it already) How can I fix this now? And what can I learn for the future?

Thanks alot for reading and I hope you guys know more than I do.


Edit: sfc /scannow finished and the same thing occurs .

Edit 2: By also cleaning up the thumbnail cache the folder icon started to work properly again. Black Square on .OTF file still remains.

:)

 

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