Windows 10: The file icon displayed by dragging any type of file in the win11 file explorer is missing...

When I open the file explorer and drag any type of file, there is a high probability that a blank icon will appear in the preview image of this file. The icon is missing or there is an icon but the background of the icon is white instead of the transparent state under the win10 system.Under the win10 system, the background of the operation icon is transparent, and the icon will not be lost. In the win11 build22000 version, the icon will be lost, but the background is still transparent. In win11 build 22621 and later, there are cases where this icon is missing and blank and the background is wh

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Cannot find Desktop Icon in File Explorer

Now that is interesting. If I do what you suggest, File Explorer Address bar changes to C:\Users\username\documents and the missing ICONS are there. But there is still not a "Desktop" folder.

Is this a step in the right direction?

 

Missing file type icons in Explorer

Hi, try this free program and post a screenshot like this



for a couple of different examples.

 

Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

It's an .exe right? Explorer probably read its icon (to a cache) when it was a "small" file and now call the quits when it finds "such a big" file.

If you want to delete it, use the console after killing explorer, you can run the console from TaskManager (Application -> New Task -> cmd). You might want to try copy the file to a different location (copy, not cut) and see if explorer can handle it in the new location before deleting it.