I haven't tried to figure out when or why this happens. I find that my desktop icons frequently lose their shortcut symbol (the little white square with curved blue arrow), or otherwise change. Running a one-month old clean Win 10 install. View 4 Replies Desktop Icons Need Frequent Refresh Jan 12, 2016 I can't figure out why all of a sudden it required this access to this HDD.Īs for the slow icon refresh.

When I remove / turn off my external HDD, boot time is about 8 seconds. Regarding the boot time: I've narrowed it down the an unexplained read/write access on my external HDD eSATA which is used for backups, though currently all backup process are stopped. Since windows 10 is installed, boot time is about 20 seconds and desktop icons take some time to refresh and load their images. Always loading very fast, i.e., about 8 seconds from cold boot. Performance :: Slow Boot Time On SSD And Slow Desktop Icons Loading Aug 6, 2015 In windows 7 this was kinda instantaneous View 9 Replies All the movie thumbnails slowly start appearing. The file explorer takes ages to show the files and the green progress bar at the top takes ages to load.