All Desktop Icons refresh when starting SOME programs


  1. grant56
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    Win 7 X64
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    All Desktop Icons refresh when starting SOME programs


    Recently, started noticing this issue on an old Win 7 install. Icons all refresh when loading total Commander, Firefox, and other programs. Many programs do not cause the refresh.

    A clean user profile does not do this, so it's something that got bolloxed in my setup.

    Anyone know where to begin looking for the cause? I already did the IconCache.db delete thing, didn't help.

    This is only happening on loading of programs, not randomly.
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  3. Megahertz07
    Posts : 7,351
    Windows 7 HP 64
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    On Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Personalization - Desktop item settings - un mark allow themes to change desktop items.
    Not sure if it will help, anyway...
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