Glad that worked for you, Grim. FWIW, I removed shortcut arrows long ago via Ultimate Tweak, so that was not part of my iconcache problem. Clearly there is a bug in Win 10 that causes us to lose...

Brink, I did every operation shown in the above URL. I did many more from other websites, including delete the iconcache.db, and delete all icon/thumbnail files. I COULD NOT REBUILD MY ICONCACHE. DB....

For the last 5 days I have been searching for a solution to restore the icons and thumbnails that disappeared on Desktop and Explorer. The iconcache.db was corrupted. I deleted it and then tried to...