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Hello, I am facing an issue with my File Explorer in Windows. Specifically, I cannot delete or unpin the wsl$ icon (see attached screenshots). Despite unpinning it, the icon still remains visible in File Explorer.
Additionally, after updating Windows, I noticed that the Linux icon in the left sidebar of File Explorer is no longer present. I also tried entering \wsl$ in the File Explorer address bar, but another issue occurred. When I try to click on folders or files, another icon unexpectedly appears, (as shown in the attached screenshots).
Could you please guide me on how to completely remove the wsl$ icon and resolve this folder interaction issue? Thank you!
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Hello,
Try the following steps to reset icon cache.
taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe to stop explorer.del %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache* to delete the icon cache files.start explorer.exe to start explorer and the icon cache should be rebuilt automatically.![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(278.4, 61%, 36%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EHP%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
when i ran the first command to kill fileexplorer and everything went black, i just got mini heart attack. I was like again i did something which i can't revert on my own.