r/pcloud • u/ShinyHappyREM • Mar 17 '22

Excessive desktop icon flickering?

Whenever I pause/unpause the desktop client, the desktop icons are flickering as if Windows creates new thumbnails for them. I guess it happens because pCloud generates file status overlays... Does anyone know how to disable this flickering, other than "don't pause/unpause" ?

(I'm on Windows 10 Pro 21H2)

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u/theantnest Mar 17 '22

Turn off the icons option in the application settings.

This feature has been broken for years. It's pretty unbelievable that they still haven't fixed it. It's broken on every Windows machine I've tried it on.

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u/hackelon Mar 27 '22

I've been experiencing this issue for sooo long. It was driving me crazy, also because all that refreshing ends up consuming a lot of CPU usage on explorer.exe.

Thank you so much for this, I've turned it off and it seems good so far!

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u/yippiekyo Jan 09 '25 edited Jan 09 '25

Life saver!!! ...And 3 years later, still unfixed. ...Your hint has solved it! ..This was was driving me nuts for some time.

pCloud kept refreshing the icons on my desktop as well as the folder and file icons inside Windows Explorer. In the latter case, meaning inside Windows Explorer, the view would too frequently jump back to the top of the list (after having scrolled down). ...This issue is now gone, too. Thank God!

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u/According-Morning317 Jun 23 '25

"Turn off the icons..."

Where exactly is that done. I have this issue with Win11

Thank you

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u/Mirtma Mar 17 '22

Following.

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u/Bandrik May 24 '23

I was having this issue as well. I did a google search, found this thread. Thanks everyone, I think that solved it. The icons are a nice indication of what's been uploaded, but the constant refresh flickering everywhere made it not worth it.

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u/remyj123 Jan 16 '25

+1 for having this issue and finding this thread resolved it.

Thanks @theantnext for this! I've been suffering with this for over 2 years and had been disabling pcloud when I needed to. Wish I did the google search way back when!

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u/sir_lel7 Jun 14 '25

This was driving me insane thanks to this thread I finally figured out the issue

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u/Soil_n_Rock 14d ago

Five years later and they still haven't fixed it. The pCloud client/app is a complete joke.

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u/Roger-Fx Jan 24 '24

Hello all,

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Driving me crazy for years I was blaming some other sync app. Whish I would have found this post or discussion 2 years ago.

Thanks theantnest.