Oh no, I wasn't blaming Gimp or thought it was Gimp's fault. I just know Gimp people are smart people so someone here would have an answer.
Sometimes every file is an Affinity Designer logo which, of course, is just as bad. And sometimes Microsoft Edge's logo too. Oftentimes, when I download a zipped file of graphics, each file will be in two or three different formats... .png, .jpg, .eps, etc. and so if the zipped file was a bundle of say 20 different images, I'll have 60 or 80 files with 20 Gimp logos, 20 AD logos, 20 Edge logos, etc. And I can't see any of them unless I open either Gimp or AD or whatever. Driving me crazy... and taking up a whole lot more storage space.
And you're right about Windows 10... it's always trying to get me to switch to the Edge browser... sometimes in very sneaky ways.