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The user reports a unusual issue on Windows 11 where the explorer.exe icon is randomly replaced with icons of different applications, such as a game icon or a recent install like xDefiant beta. A responder suggests that this could be caused by corrupt memory or an issue with the Windows icon cache database, implying it might be a system cache corruption or memory problem. Overall, the thread discusses a confusing icon glitch likely related to system cache or hardware issues.
Styphoryte

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Anyone else every have this strange issue where explorer.exe icon is replaced with some random shortcut or application and it changes once in awhile too depending if I've installed something recently or not. On Win 11 22h2 No dev preview or anything... My explorer .exe icon has also been the Splitgate game icon before as well lol. Edit: Uploaded screenshot my bad forgot to include this... You can see recently I've installed xDefiant beta and so now that's what my explorer.exe icon is replaced by haha.
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Josephur

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I'd say you have some sort of corrupt memory issue going on. Or the Windows icon cache database is whack.
 

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