Windows 10: Some desktop icons changed to small (W10P)

Hi all,

I have a rather annoying issue that I can't seem to fix. Some of my desktop icons have somehow changed to a lower resolution image centered inside a 1px frame. Recreating the icons doesn't fix it either, about 20% of my apps have small icons which used to be regular size. This happens now on some newly installed applications. Windows 10 Pro clean install about 3 months ago. This issue has been happening for the last 2 weeks. They used to be all consistent then one day I minimize a couple windows to get to desktop and boom, some icons were small, I immediately rebuilt the icon cache, it didn't work so I left it.

Here is a screenshot of what I mean.





Things I have tried but were unsuccessful:

• Rebuild icon cache
• Ctrl + scroll, adjust icon size from context menu
• Delete then recreate icon, create icon in different ways
• Reinstalling application
• MalwareBytes scan, Windows Defender scan (both showed nothing)
• Manually inspect Program Files, Program Files (x86), AppData, ProgramData for anything unusual
• Spend some hours on Google researching if others had this problem
• Shout at screen

I don't want to change the icon of the shortcuts to some downloaded image as this will be a game of cat and mouse... bad solution to a bad problem. I also don't want to install some 3rd party app to start adjusting icons or exe resources. Mind you the icons used to appear correctly.

I have used all versions of Windows over the years since 3.1 and I have never seen this issue before. I have Windows 10 very customized... removed/stopped a lot of MS advertising junk, cortana, upload data to MS, data sharing, etc but no unsafe hacks. Nothing related to icons though that I can think of. I've even had thoughts about reinstalling Windows due an undetected issue.

Anyone have any ideas?

:)

 

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Based on GD's comment, I changed the icon size from small to medium, then back to small. This resulted in the icons being changed around somewhat. Then I moved some icons around, and change the size to medium and back to small. This time the icons stayed
put.

It will now be interesting to see if the icons stay put after I reboot.