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Windows 7 Desktop Icons corrupt

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202631122 views
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I've just run into an issue on Windows 7 whereby a couple of my desktop icons are not showing correctly, see screenshot: I've tried deleting the icon cache and also changing the Max Cached Icons setting in the registry and rebooting, but neither have helped. If I browse to C:\eclipse where my Eclip…

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Fix for: Windows 7 Desktop Icons corrupt

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This was fixed by reducing screen color depth to 16bit as suggested by Andreas above, and then deleting . After restoring to 32-bit, the icons reappeared.

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