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When I open Start Menu, I can scroll through the apps and the icons are fine.

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However, when I start typing (searching), many of the icons get replaced with IrfanView.

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Uninstalling IrfanView did not help.
Restoring the Windows icon cache did not help too.

How to fix this?

Qwerty
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  • Make a new, test, Windows User Account and Profile. Log into the new account and see if the Start Menu works properly. – John Feb 25 '22 at 18:57
  • The methods you have tried do not work with UWP apps. Try this: Install IrfanView, do Options > Check ALL extensions > OK. Exit IrfanView and relaunch and do Options > Uncheck ALL extensions > OK. – harrymc Feb 25 '22 at 21:21
  • @John The other account's icons are fine when searching. – Qwerty Feb 26 '22 at 18:51
  • @harrymc It didn't help. I also tried doing it as admin. – Qwerty Feb 26 '22 at 18:51
  • Try this: Open an elevated PowerShell and enter this command: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}. – harrymc Feb 26 '22 at 19:02
  • @harrymc It does something, says "Deployment operation progress: C:\Program Files...", but below it it sometimes writes an error "Add-AppxPackage : Cannot find path 'C:\AppXManifest.xml' because it does not exist.", or "Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x..." ... because ... "driver could not be found", "higher version is already installed", "resource currently in use" or "package is currently paused". etc. – Qwerty Feb 26 '22 at 19:11
  • That's another problem. The question is whether this helped, if not - reboot and check again. – harrymc Feb 26 '22 at 19:12
  • @harrymc Restarted, it didn't help. And now I get many error popups like "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps.......exe The parameter is incorrect"

    Thank you for your effort, I don't want to bother you too much. I will try to do more research on internet.

     – Qwerty Feb 26 '22 at 19:26
  • Something screwed up your setup. Try to test Windows integrity by running Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and then sfc /scannow. – harrymc Feb 26 '22 at 19:28
  • @harrymc Both commands finished within minutes successfully. sfc didn't find any integrity violations. – Qwerty Feb 26 '22 at 21:18
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    In this case, I have to suggest to Do a Repair Install of Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade. – harrymc Feb 27 '22 at 09:40
  • @harrymc I managed to fix it by following this answer https://superuser.com/a/1538058/99602. Turns out, the issue is caused by Google Drive File Stream - DriveFS Thumbnail Provider, which is set as a Thumbnail provider for .png files in registry. Removing it fixed it. – Qwerty Mar 03 '22 at 03:47

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