USB drives displaying weird icons (i believe in usb 3.0 ports only)

This was never an issue until extremely recently. Unfortunately I didnt pick up on exactly when it began happening.

All 3 of my usb external hard drives and my usb stick show weird icons in devices and printers (theyre the ones labled "device" if it isnt obvious lol) The usb stick shows that same weird icon in explorer.

The drives P/Q/R/U are the ones showing weird in devices and printers. Only U shows weird in explorer.

U has an autorun.inf and autorun.ico in order for it to look like a USB stick. It displays this properly if I move it to a usb 2.0 port. Why it no longer does in a usb 3 port is beyond me.

P/Q/R simply showed as hard disks like they do in explorer, in devices and printers - which is no longer the case either. I cant test if this is the same behavior in a usb 2 port as the cords for them are very much zip tied and shortened that theyre basically permanent until such a time i have to replace them. I would assume the behavior is identical though.

I obviously tried unplugging/replugging several times. windows is completely up to date. ran sfc/dism and they came up fine. rebuilt icon cache.

At a loss at this point. Did the newest windows update change something or have an issue that needs addressing in a future update? im on 1909 build 18363.449





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hmmm. this is looking to be a windows 10 update problem. Curious if anyone else is seeing this? It seems to take the removal and re-addition of a device, or it can anyways.

I didnt notice it on my other pc until i unplugged the usb stick to test on my main pc, and put it back.

either way, point being this wonky icon behavior with usb 3.x seems to be present on both pcs. One is 5 years newer, completely different platform intel vs amd, only thing shared/the same is windows 10 and being on the same version.

Sounds like some microsoft stuff, similar to their temp killing of printing a few updates back.

Man i was just about to open a thread because of this. Its driving me nuts. For me it started yesterday, after running windows update.

Like you said, it only affects USB3.0 devices, if you plug that same device to a USB 3.0 port but with a USB2.0 cable, it will show properly.

Things i've tried:
Went to device manager and uninstalled USB 3.0 root hub and intel usb3.0 eXtensible host controller
Removed all entries from my external drives / usb flash drives (the usb 3.0 ones)
Nothing helped.

After doing a system restore to a previous date (thus removing the latest update (KB4522355)), my flash drives started showing properly again, but not my main external hard drive. Maybe if i uninstalled it and plugged it again it would help but i didn't try. I already updated windows again and will wait for a fix (if MS acknowledges the problem).
KB4522355 does seem to be the culprit, either that or the latest .net update, which i doubt.
What bothers me is the eject menu in the bottom right corner, instead of saying "eject Sandisk Ultra 3.0" for example, it says "eject Device".



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Great, i just tried a usb2.0 flash drive in a usb2.0 port and it's the same. I don't know if it was because of doing a system restore and then installing the update again, but they worked fine yesterday, when the usb3.0 devices were already showing this bug



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2nd edit:
I just removed KB4522355 and it did NOT help. A system restore helped yesterday, it makes me think that MS also updated some drivers. Either that or whatever the last update changed, removing it alone is not enough. Bummer

I'm not seeing the issue, yet, all up to date though. Windows 10 Pro.

USB 3.0 devices with custom Autorun icons.