checking. Solved. I hope. I went into a certain software that thew forum wont let me print and went to desktop, icons and its set on 'no shortcut arrows. I change it to arrows, and restarted explorer, and the arrows were on the icons, I went back and said NO arrows, and the desktop is back to normal. I think it may be possible that the last update, earlier today, corrupted my setting and left the arrow 'box' instead of the arrow. I have fixed it and am now going to do a full reboot to see if its ok.