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Default/blank app icons on taskbar

About 50% of the time (so far exactly every other time over several restarts) I get the default application icons for anything I personally pinned to the task bar.  This is a brand-new, fresh install of Windows 10 that I downloaded yesterday with the USB Creator Tool.

I have installed the following programs since Windows install:

Chrome, Firefox, JetBrains Toolbox, Rider, Visual Studio, HexChat, git, office, Greenshot, Slack

I have completed all updates.

I have deleted the iconcache.db

Killing Windows Explorer fixes the issue

Just refreshed itself while I was writing this thread. 

My name is Ru. I'm an Independent Advisor and I'll be glad to help you today.

Let's do some system scans. They will look for any system corruption and will fix it.

Press Windows key and X key
Power menu will appear
Select Powershell(Admin)
Open it

NOTE:
Do one scan at a time.
Some of these scans will take some time to finish.

Type,
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Hit Enter.

Type,
sfc /scannow
Hit Enter.

Type,
chkdsk /v /f /r C:
Hit Enter.

When asked to schedule it,
Type Y

Now type this to restart the system,
Shutdown /r

Once it's done try removing your Icons from the taskbar and pin them back again

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I did all those things and restarted several times and had no problems until I tried to run Rider.

The icon for Rider is wrong.  I've restarted twice.  I'll try several more times to see if this is still an issue. 

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Last updated June 17, 2024 Views 976 Applies to: