Windows will not retain icon settings

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Personalization includes your account's theme settings, desktop background, color and appearance, sounds, screen saver settings, desktop icon settings, mouse pointers, Notification Area Icons, and System Icons. In Windows 10, the personalization settings are all moving to the Settings app. To access the setting app, here are the steps:.

Select Pictures, scroll down to the ones you want to make a theme of, select the pictures then Save Changes. Click on Unsaved Theme to save it with the name of your choice and you have a new theme.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Thanks for the reply Jose, however this did not solve my problem. I have set all my settings and saved a custom theme with my desired settings and background, sounds, screensaver, etc. I click on the theme I created to set as default and delete the one that was created.

I come back some time later and it is all happening over again. Non-stop cycle. If the steps provided did not work, we can try to perform a clean boot to see if there are software conflicts.

Click this link to perform a clean boot, this will help in identifying if there are applications or startup items that is causing the issue.

We can also run the System File Checker to scan your system files and to repair missing or corrupted system files in Windows.

Click this link to run the SFC scan. Since we have rolled out a lot of Windows 10 updates for the past months, we suggest creating a new thread about the issue for us to effectively assist you. To do that, refer to the article below:.

How to ask an effective question. Those folder settings are stored in the Registry, all of them. A word of warning: Messing up things in the Registry can cause your system to crash. Know what you are doing before attempting these instructions. You can use Regedit too if you wish. Also, if you do these instructions, you will lose the view settings you currently have on existing folders.

Not the folders or their contents, just the view settings i. Remember, existing view settings will be lost, so you might want to re-create them. Ah, I have forgotten to mention the risk of increasing the registry size for slower PCs!

Thanks for pointing it out! For me, all new folders were forgetting their view settings, not selective ones. Thanks InF, what about Bags key? Just the BagMRU key? Some users may be in face of this issue: nothing is shown up on the panel whenever they open the Windows Insider Program settings. Can they fix the issue? This post will show you how to download and safely install Windows 11 Insider Preview on your current computer. Many users reported they came across the error message - system registry file is missing - when their Windows operating system is loading.

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