so one day i mad my little brother an account so he can play games without messing with my stuff and once the account boot up every account on the system was like the picture down below. i thought it was a redgedit problem so I restored windows keeping my stuff and that seemed to fix it. a week went by i woke up got on my computer loged on and the problem seems to be back.
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I might suggest this sounds like your Icon Cache. You can search Icon Cache within the forum. I believe you will find symptoms like yours.
To rebuild please reference Brink's tutorial on icon cache rebuild.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5645-icon-cache-rebuild-windows-10-a.html
Rebuilding the Icon Cache will not fix this issue. I experienced the exact same when creating another user also repeated on a third user. There was a registry error on the third user first boot but I did not get a chance to read it before it went away.
SonicBlue can I ask how you final resolved. Did you do a re-install or a repair Windows? Thanks
SonicBlue the first time it happened was when making a local user and then i restored windows keeping my stuff and the second time i just turned on my pc and the problem returned.
I continued to look for solutions as the issue does seem common. I came across this solution.
http://www.top-password.com/blog/fix-desktop-icons-show-only-text-in-windows-10/
It talks to renaming / deleting this specific key. I would rename.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons
I did not test this solution. I will say I checked three of my Window 10 machines and I don't have this key, nor do I have the problem of only seeing text.
I'm presenting for discussion. Thoughts or comments?
Anyone taking this action should obviously make a backup of the registry or even an Image with Macrium before proceeding to ensure they can restore.
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