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The user is experiencing a change in folder icon colors, noticing that folder icons appear white on their hard drive but remain yellow on USB drives. They ask how to restore the yellow folder icons. A respondent suggests resetting the thumbnail cache by running two PowerShell commands to resolve the issue.
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The folder icons that were yellow are now white on my hard drive. They are yellow when viewing the contents of a USB drive.
How do I get the yellow ones back??
 

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Neemobeer
Open a Powershell prompt and run the following two commands. This should reset the thumbnail cache.

gi $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache* | Remove-Item
Stop-Process -Name explorer
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Open a Powershell prompt and run the following two commands. This should reset the thumbnail cache.

gi $env:LOCALAPPDATA\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\thumbcache* | Remove-Item
Stop-Process -Name explorer
 
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