Icon cache may also be too small. This will cause randomly disappearing icons, and is not fixed by rebuilding the cache.
Fix:
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/increase-icon-cache-size-in-windows
Winaero Tweaker also has a setting to increase the cache. This program is a nice front end to the...
NTFS was updated a few years back. However, this caused a different problem, and now that I notice the affected drive is just 300GB, I wonder if it was formatted under the old NTFS (Win7 and before, IIRC).
If an external drive is accessed directly (ie. is not in a commercial enclosure that uses...
This is not true. The reason (and I found this in Microsoft's own Knowledge Base, back when the old one was still online) it was limited to 32GB in Win98 is because there is a bug in FAT32 that causes data wrapping once any data is written beyond the 32GB limit. There was a long technical...
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