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There is a file that acts as a cache for the icons, and sometimes it gets corrupted, you can try deleting it and windows will rebuild it.

 

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-rebuild-the-icon-cache-in-windows/

 

The fie is call: 

IconCache.db
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My desktop icons suddenly turned blank, like a text document, not the actual icon. any fix for this?

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3 minutes ago, Midiatemaster said:

Could you possibly take a screenshot?

 

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Just now, Midiatemaster said:

Did you move the folder that those shortcuts go to?

No

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You could add a custom icon to the executable, I added a custom icon to Fusion 360 because the old one glitched out like that. Find the executable or desktop app, open the file location, open the properties, and click change icon.

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21 minutes ago, Sors said:

There is a file that acts as a cache for the icons, and sometimes it gets corrupted, you can try deleting it and windows will rebuild it.

 

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/how-to-rebuild-the-icon-cache-in-windows/

 

The fie is call: 


IconCache.db

Thanks, it worked.

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