Appearance of text files on Windows home screen changed

Question

My text files (Notepad) on my desktop used to look like the first image, but now it looks like the second image. I didn't restart my computer or update or anything, in fact I'm pretty sure it changed appearance while I was using it, so I'm not sure why it changed. Is there a way to revert their appearance back to default and not showing all the contents? This only happens to previously created text documents; ones that I made just now are in their default appearance.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Clear the icons cache, follow these instructions:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. From the View tab, select Hidden items
3. Then select Show selected items
4. Go to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer, User is the username of your account profile
5. Select all files that begin with iconcache
6. Right­-click on these files
7. Click Delete.To delete these files faster, press the <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Delete</kbd> keys.
8. Empty the Recycle Bin