I have recently been having AMD driver issues so I decided to do a clean install of the driver, then run all repairs using windows repair v4.9.0 pro in safe mode.
Did all pre-repair steps except I forgot to back up the registry.
My system is win 7 x64 SP1 ultimate.
After the repair, my OS's folder icon associations are completely messed up. They are normal in safe mode, but in regular mode, the following issues suddenly appear:
When I open 'My Computer', none of the drives shows up.
When I launch control panel, there is 0 icon in it until I wait a minute or 2.
When I open any folder, all icons(.png, .mp4, .doc, .txt etc.) are blank. After a few refresh, the green bar in the address bar shows up and it always takes longer than 3 minutes for the icons to display. That folder only has 10 files. I got very fast CPU and SSD.
The above issue repeats the next time I open the same folder.
I tried to reset the icon cache and restore win 7 default folder templates, none of them helped.
Searched on sevenforums and didn't find a solution.
Then I realize I have a windows generated registry back up in c:\windows\system32\config\RegBack
The back up was created just before I used windows repair pro's repair all function.
I manually restored the 5 registry files using cmd before getting into the OS, and the icon / explorer problems are solved.
I'm 100% sure your software was the reason for this mess up, spent the whole afternoon trying to fix it.
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