Windows 10: Windows 10 Thumbnails AND Icons Gone

Alright, I was doing some routine cleaning with Ccleaner two days ago, and one of the areas cleaned was the Thumbnail cache.

When it finished, I discovered that in Large View mode, none of my icons or thumbnails regenerated. I can still see them in Medium, Small, Tiles, Details, etc. but not Large or Extra Large.





I made sure the check box "Display only icons, never thumbnails" was unchecked, and even checked and re-un-checked it to make sure. I also tried the suggestion of running Disk Cleanup and clearing the Thumbnail cache again, no dice. Another article suggested some registry edits to set those filetypes back to factory default settings (jpeg, png, etc) but all that did was reset their program association from Irfanview back to Windows Photo Viewer. Finally I tried installing Icaros and managing my thumbnail cache with it. Still no luck. Of course after each of these solutions I rebooted the machine. So far nothing has worked. Help please? What makes this issue extra weird for me is that only Large/Extra Large View is affected, and that the default icons are missing as well as the thumbnails.

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All icons & thumbnails gone in Windows Explorer & desktop


Hi all,

On turning on my laptop yesterday (for the first time in a couple of days), all my icons are now missing:





This also includes thumbnails, etc:





I have tried restarting / full shutdown a few times with no effect.

Any suggestions much appreciated!

Thanks,

Paul

 

All icons and thumbnails are gone

Good day everyone.

Today my machine failed to start wampserver so I had to reboot.

Once windows started, desktop and taskbar icons were gone. Here's a screenshot:




You can also notice that explorer icons are all gone too including thumbnails.

I tried many solutions online including removing iconCache*.db files and thumbnailCache files, upon restart they were rebuilt but the problem wasn't gone.

I would like to hear any suggestions on how I can fix this without reinstalling the OS.

Maybe it's worth to mention that before that reboot I had connected to an external screen (I'm using a laptop) and that usually alters the position of my icons on the desktop since the screen is fairly big.

Thank you for your help.

 

Windows 10 quicktime thumbnails

Hi Ali,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Please provide more information to help :

• 
  When you say "the thumbnails are just icons", is that on a local account or the Microsoft account?
  
• 
  Do you have the latest version of ProRes or iTunes installed on the pc?
  

I suggest you to follow the steps below and verify the result.

• 
  Go to file explorer and clock on view.
  
• 
  Select Options and Go to View.
  
• 
  Under Files and folders uncheck the box always show icon, never thumbnails.
  

I also suggest you to install any pending Windows updates on the pc to check if that helps. Updates are additions to software that can help prevent or fix problems, improve how your computer works, or enhance your computing experience.

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.