Issue

If you use install the Google Drive’s desktop app on Windows 10, there’s a good chance that your Windows search bar result will end up looking like this: most UMP app icons are corrupted. Corrupted_icon

Solutions

According to user Zenexer and iSaumya on StackExchange, here are some viable solutions.

Solution 1

Some third-party apps like Google Drive will try to handle .png thumbnail by installing their own thumbnail generators. This breaks Windows 10 somehow. The way to solve this:

  • Search regedit in the search bar, open Regedit.exe with Administrator premission
  • Navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.png
  • Delete whatever subkeys inside \shellex
  • Right click on the shellex and click on permissions
  • Under Groups or user names scroll down and select Administrators
  • Under the permission section Deny for both Full Control and Read. Then click Apply and Ok.
  • Restart the PC

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If it doesn’t take effect after reboot, try to change the Scale and layout a few times in Change resolution settings.

Solution 2

Try to enable thumbnails.

  • Search sysdm.cpl and hit enter to open System Properties
  • Under Advanced system settings, click Settings... in the Performance group.
  • Ensure Show thumbnails instead of icons is checked.

Solution 3

Most people have already had this option unchecked, so try it if others don’t work for you.

  • Open a File Explorer window.
  • In the View ribbon tab, click the Options button on the right.
  • Select the View tab in the resulting dialog.
  • At the top of the list of checkboxes in the Advanced settings group, ensure Always show icons, never thumbnails is unchecked.
  • If it’s already unchecked, try checking it, clicking Apply, unchecking it again, and clicking OK. Otherwise, just uncheck it and click OK.

Solution 4

Reinstall AppX packages

  • Open PowerShell as an administrator.
  • Run:
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Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | ForEach-Object {if ($_.InstallLocation) {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml" -Verbose}}

Solution 5

Clear cached icons/thumbnails

  • Search Disk Cleanup and run, be sure to check Thumbnails
  • Open the command prompt, run ie4uinit -show. If this doesn’t work, proceed.
  • Kill Explorer.exe: taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
  • Delete cache
    • del /f /q "%LocalAppData%\IconCache.db"
    • del /f /q "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache_*.db"
    • del /f /q "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache_*.db"

Solution 6

Basicly, the solutions above will solve the issue. But if it somehow doesn’t take effect, try to perform a system scan:

  • Open Command Prompt as an administrator.
  • Run sfc /scannow
  • Run dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
  • Run shutdown -r -t 0 or reboot normally

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