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Windows 8 RP metro tiles are blank
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I installed Windows 8 RP over Windows 7 x64. Everything works, but my metro tiles are blank. Just color squares without any icons. I tried to install W8 again over current installation, but it still is blank. Any advice? I dont want to perform refresh or clean install, since its my work computer and I cant spend a day reinstalling everything.
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Blank Metro Tiles Windows 8 RP (Solved)
Hope this helps it worked for me.
How to fix all updated metro apps tiles going blank all of a sudden you need to uninstall sage thumbs or xnveiw or any program that as changed Windows 8 default image file associations and also beware of installing unsupported Java Version 7 Update 5.
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