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How to fix taskbar icons that look like white paper?

I recently downloaded a bunch of Windows 8 style icons and replaced the default icons for a bunch of different programs (the ones pinned to my taskbar and some of the others that I frequently use. I have done this on about 5 Windows 8.1 machines and a Server 2012 R2 Essentials install but, this one computer started to give me issues with all taskbar icons appearing as sheets of white paper. All of the Icons are kept locally on each PC in a icon folder in the pictures folder when I go into the properties from the taskbar and click change icon then click browse it takes me to my icon folder and I can reset the image but it doesn't cause any change still sheets of paper. Would like to fix this issue. I saw a similar post but it applied to Windows 7 and didn't work for me.
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Just go into taskbar on Windows 8.1.  Look for Processes,  Windows Explorer, right click on it and restart.  Should fix the paper icon.  I do it all the time, works every time.

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Hey there, try these steps.

Open Command prompt in elevated mode.
Type "taskkill /im explorer.exe /f"

Type Enter after each line.
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db
Reboot to take effect

 

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