Icons in Start have white duplicates


GracieAllen

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I think I figured out the white icons, but I'm STILL getting blank icons on the taskbar... Go into the Start Menu, down to Snipping tool, click on it and it runs fine. BUT, down on the taskbar, instead of a Snipping Tool icon, I get a blank (empty) icon with just the little bar that's under the icons for things that are open.
 
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Interested to say what people think about this, as I have had this before as well - duplicate and white icons in the main program listing - but it was on one specific machine which was old and technically shouldn't be running Windows 11. Never did solve it. I suspect something to do with graphics driver maybe.
 

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    Windows 11
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    Laptop
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    HP Pavilion 14-ce3514sa
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    Core i5
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    16gb
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    Samsung 970 evo plus 2TB
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    Could be better
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    200mbps Starlink
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    Firefox
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    Originally installed with a 500gb H10 Optane ssd
Just use the command line, cmd.exe

1- Refresh icon cache: ie4uinit.exe -show (enter)
2-Restart explorer: tskill explorer (enter)

Your icons should be all there.
 

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    Win11 All /Debian/Arch
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    ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. TUF Gaming FX705GM
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    2.20 gigahertz Intel i7-8750H Hyper-threaded 12 cores
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    ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. FX705GM 1.0
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    24428 Megabytes
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    Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
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    Intel(R) Display Audio / Realtek(R) Audio
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    Integrated Monitor (17.3"vis)
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    FHD 1920X1080 16:9
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    2 SSD SATA/NVM Express 1.3
    WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500.1 GB
    WDCSDAPNUW-1002 256 GB
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    19V DC 6.32 A 120 W
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    Dual Fans
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    MS Bluetooth
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    Fiber 1GB Cox -us & ADSL Bouygues -fr
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    Edge Canary- Firefox Nightly
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    Windows Defender
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    VMs of Windows 11 stable/Beta/Dev/Canary
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    Windows 11 Insider Canary
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    Laptop
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    ASUS X751BP
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    AMD Dual Core A6-9220
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    ASUS
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    8 GB
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    AMD Radeon R5 M420
    Sound Card
    Realtek
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    17.3
    Screen Resolution
    1600X900 16:9
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    1TB 5400RPM

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