Icons Missing

Hi Muzz69,

Open administrator command prompt and run sfc /scannow

You could also check, if other users are affected (create one if you are the only user) and if disconnecting second monitor helps (assuming you have more than one)

Muzz69 said:

Thanks AndreTen,

I did these already.

sfc /scannow - did find some issues and corrected them but not the icons.
created a new user (admin) - signed out - new user also affected.
Only have the 1 monitor.

I have just been looking into broken shell extensions... nothing found... this is very frustrating now...

Do you have any shell extension installed? I've found some (old) posts os Stardock IconPackager causing similar behavior

Edit: also check this old post, if anything helps

Edit2: Check this post also... fixing security on User/appdata folder. all-icons-missing-entire-system-

in short (replace Laurie with your Username)

Go to: C:\Users\Laurie\AppData
Right click Local -> Properties
Press the Security tab
Press the Advanced button
Press the Add button
Click on the blue Select a principal
Type: Laurie
Press OK
Next to Applies to, sleect: This folder only
Check Full control
Press OK, press continue if that ever shows up, press OK, OK to close it all.
Restart the computer.

Muzz69 said:

Thanks for the ideas AndreTen,

I don't have any Stardock IconPackager installed. I tried disabling all the shell extensions... no luck.
I tried to perform your edit2 but when i right click the local folder and go properties nothing happens. Properties is not working for anything except "My computer".
I tried booting in safe mode and still have no icons.
The only thing i can see has happened since i had this problem is that AVG appears to have done a program update. I guess the next thing to try is uninstall AVG and go back to a previous version.

How many times did you run sfc /scannow? If any problems were found, it is recommended up to three times (with restart in between..)

At this point I would recommend uninstalling AVG (Windows defender is doing really well last few months anyway) and do an inplace upgrade (mounting Windows ISO - you can get it from MS and run setup). All your files and programs will remain. This is fairly quick. Next step would be clean install.

I can only tell from other posts about this problem, but if it's not just simple show / hide icons (in that case text wouldn't remain) or rebuilding cache problem, this isn't easy to recover from ...

Good luck!