Thumbnail Icon of Apps Not Showing in Windows 10/11 Start Menu & Search
4Thumbnail Icon of Apps Not Showing in Windows 10/11 Start Menu & Search
One of the common “it’s still Windows” chores we have to do now and then is reset the icon and thumbnail cache. If your icons are corrupted in some way—blank, taken over by another app, or not displaying as they normally do—then resetting the icon cache can fix the problem.
The same goes for the thumbnail cache, which keeps a preview of images, videos, and documents. There are several ways to do this. The most common involves using the command line. Or you can use a free third-party utility. We’ll look at both options.
Thumbnails are rather useful, and many users prefer using thumbnails over icons. However, equally many users reported that thumbnail previews aren’t showing in File Explorer.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
thumbnail icon not showing picture windows 10
thumbnail icon of apps not showing in windows 11
thumbnail icon of apps not showing in windows 10 start menu & search
When working on a Windows 11 & Windows 10 system, you need a lot of apps to work with. While opening the app through the Start menu or the Windows search , you usually see or identify the app through it’s explicit icon. However, some users are reporting of coming across a strange issue, where the thumbnail icons of the Microsoft apps are not showing in the Windows 10 Start and Search menu when looking up for specific app.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung.