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    Windows 7 Folders/Icons Flashing/Flickering

    Pretty much what the titles says. I only noticed it last night when I had a folder open (Not full screen) and was flicking through it, that all the items on my desktop was flickering when I went into another folder.

    That was late at night with my PC being on along time. Its happened today, but in a shorter amount of time. I have however been playing some games, so maybe that could be related with it?

    I do know that stopping, then re-starting explorer.exe fixes it. Just curious if anyone else has seen this or experienced it?


    This is mostly the best example I can give which I found, just that it does it when I'm going through folders. But its not just constant, so I guess it is a game/program I opened at the time causing it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF6Sp9EM-i0

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    Re: Windows 7 Folders/Icons Flashing/Flickering

    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

    Run that and disable any shell extensions you have installed that it marks as pink - does your problem go away? If so it's just a case of going through and enabling them one by one to see which one is causing the issue.

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    Re: Windows 7 Folders/Icons Flashing/Flickering

    Looks like your icon cache refreshing due to low memory. Your icon cache might be full if you have left your system on for a good while.

    Try flushing the explorer icon cache from a command prompt. Type C:\Windows\System32\ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache at the prompt. Command prompt is located under Start > Program Files > Accessories.

    A system reboot will also flush the cache.

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    Re: Windows 7 Folders/Icons Flashing/Flickering

    The batch file from here has always worked for me.

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