Fix blank or white shortcut icons on desktop [Solved/Closed]
bhavintandel6
Posts Sunday October 4, 2009Registration date
April 11, 2012
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Oct 5, 2009 at 09:05 AM - Latest reply: CHUCKY
- Jan 17, 2018 at 06:47 AM
Hello,
my Desktop icons became blank or ‘white paper’ icon, where supposedly the icons should be colorful and customized in style and color. It’s as if the icon for the shortcut has been removed or unassigned, and been replaced with default blank icon in white.
My solution :
After trying most of what was recommended (system restore, registry edits, rebuilding iconcache.deb in several ways) none of which worked, I finally got my icons back !!!
Go here: http://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/ and get the trial version of IconPackager, install it, use it to switch to any icon package, then switch back (if you want to) the standard windows icons.
And voilà... all icons back.
Best regards !
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WOW; I created an account for this website JUST to say thank you SOOOOO very freaking much :) ... I tried NUMEROUS things such as yourself, from rebuilding icon cache, to deleting .db, from system restore, to system repair, etc. damn near EVERYTHING and this was the ONLY method that solved my broken icons. I was using a program called ultra virus killer to resolve some issues not relevant to this, and think that may have caused the problem. I tried system restore, which upon waiting 20 minutes failed, then windows 7 would NOT load (I was on the edge of my seat), then tried doing a system repair, which took 30 minutes and just failed; last resort to get windows back was using command prompt at boot and doing a few commands which got windows back up and running and still had broken icon cache, and stumbled across this...KUDOS to you!!!! thank you from saving me the HASSLE of having to reformat!!!!!!! I LOVE U :)
This was a great help and solved my ongoing problem of many months. It was such a relief that I bought the program (only $9.99) rather than just use the trial. I thought this the fair thing to do in the circumstances. Thanks to all
