Personalized icons disappear (Mount & Dismount) Win 11 25h2 latest update

[zardoc]

Hi,
Since the latest or one before (not sure) Win updates, all my personalized icons disappeared. after mounting update.

I re created my icons and again lost all of them. All icons are now back to default Win settings.

Here is a snapshot of a re created icon and as you can see on the right of the icon the other one is missing but shows up in the settings.
Is this a known issue ?
Is there a fix ?

Thanks.

[zardoc]

Hi,

So no one sees this problem ??

[Mounir IDRASSI]

This looks related to a recent Windows 11 change rather than VeraCrypt. Starting with the Windows security updates released on June 9, 2026, Microsoft changed how Explorer processes desktop.ini files. As a result, custom folder icons may stop appearing when Windows considers the desktop.ini source untrusted, although the files and folders themselves are not affected.

Could you please check one affected folder in PowerShell:

Get-Item -LiteralPath "X:\Complex St-Hubert\desktop.ini" -Force -Stream *

If you see Zone.Identifier, try:

Unblock-File -LiteralPath "X:\Complex St-Hubert\desktop.ini"

For all folders on the mounted volume:

Get-ChildItem "X:\" -Recurse -Force -Filter desktop.ini | Unblock-File

Please do this only for content you trust. Afterward, close and reopen Explorer or dismount/remount the volume.

If the issue remains, please provide your exact Windows build and let us know whether the VeraCrypt volume is mounted using "Mount volume as removable medium". VeraCrypt can expose mounted volumes either as fixed or removable media, and Windows Explorer may handle shell customizations and caching differently depending on that classification.

[zardoc]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Here is the information I have
I have 2 drives X and Z. I can see the icons on the explorer tree but not in the actual folder.

PSPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::X:\Complex St-Hubert\desktop.ini::$DATA
PSParentPath : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::X:\Complex St-Hubert
PSChildName : desktop.ini::$DATA
PSDrive : X
PSProvider : Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem
PSIsContainer : False
FileName : X:\Complex St-Hubert\desktop.ini
Stream : :$DATA
Length : 204

PS C:\Users\Lance\Desktop> Get-ChildItem "Z:\" -Recurse -Force -Filter desktop.ini | Unblock-File
Get-ChildItem: Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'Z' does not exist.
PS C:\Users\Lance\Desktop> Get-ChildItem "Z:\" -Recurse -Force -Filter desktop.ini | Unblock-File
Get-ChildItem: Access to the path 'Z:\System Volume Information' is denied.
PS C:\Users\Lance\Desktop> Get-ChildItem "X:\" -Recurse -Force -Filter desktop.ini | Unblock-File

Get-ChildItem: Access to the path 'X:\System Volume Information' is denied.

[petitlou60]

hello,
this is a windows bug, with veracrypt volumes, explorer ignore dektop.ini files
(same behavior for shared files)
there is a work around:
create shortcur with content C:\Windows\explorer.exe ,
yes explorer with comma parameter!
attach shortcut to taskbar
use it to start explorer, now personalized icons appears
best regards

[zardoc]

Hi,

My fix was this for X and and Z drives.
Power Shell

For X:
Get-ChildItem "X:\" -Recurse -Filter desktop.ini -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach-Object { try { Unblock-File $_.FullName } catch {} }

For Z:
Get-ChildItem "Z:\" -Recurse -Filter desktop.ini -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ForEach-Object { try { Unblo

I rebuilt icon cache after. Sometimes it doesn't show so I just rebuild icon cache again

@echo off
set iconcache=%localappdata%\IconCache.db
set iconcache_x=%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*

echo.
echo The explorer process must be temporarily killed before deleting the IconCache.db file. 
echo.
echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing.
echo.
pause
echo.
If exist "%iconcache%" goto delete
echo.
echo The %localappdata%\IconCache.db file has already been deleted.
echo. 
If exist "%iconcache_x%" goto delete
echo.
echo The %localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\IconCache_*.db files have already been deleted.
echo.
exit /B


:delete
echo.
echo Attempting to delete IconCache.db files...
echo.
ie4uinit.exe -show
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F 
timeout /t 2 >nul
del /A /F /Q "%iconcache%"
del /A /F /Q "%iconcache_x%"
start explorer.exe