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What causes desktop shortcut icons to randomly change?

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Mar 15, 202616128 views

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I've noticed that a some shortcut icons on my desktop will randomly change to other icons on my desktop. Example: I have a shortcut to Cygwin, Git, Computer, Documents, Chrome, etc. The Cygwin shortcut will start off as the correct icon, however, after some restarts the Cygwin icon will change to t…

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This is usually because ShellIconCache is corrupt.

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What causes desktop shortcut icons to randomly change?

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