So a white page overlay showed up on most of my desktop icons today...

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  1. Brink
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    It appears that you have something else that is adding an overlay on these items.

    You might see if doing a system restore using a restore point dated before this started may sort it for you.

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  3. JonF
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    Restore for C: is and has been on. There are no restore points. I doubt a malware infection because I use Windows Defender and a paid Malwarebytes, but I'll try a few more scanners.
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  4. JonF
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    I managed to convince Veritas System Recovery (nee Norton Ghost) that it really should restore the system. It didn't want to because it thought the disk layout had changed. Problem solved.
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  6. Brink
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    Great news Jon.
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  7. arachnaut
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    I recently encountered this problem when I added my wife's account to my computer as a standard user (non-administrator account).

    It was because the overlay icon was located in my document folder which she did not have access.
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