Icons Missing

Thanks AndreTen,

No when I do the sfc /scannow it doesn't find any issues.

I have now also uninstalled AVG and this did not fix the problem. Unless there are some components left in the registry i need to remove?
Can you give me instructions on how do the inplace upgrade - i'm not quite following...
The other thing i was thinking of is if it could have been caused by a bad windows update. Is there any way to see which updates have been installed and when? But i'm thinking that the system restore i did would have brought me back to before the update anyway. Yes / No?
I find it strange that this problem is still occuring in safe mode.

I'd like to say - good job Microsoft on a great product windows 10... not. I have only had this for 4 months and already so many software issues. No wonder you wanted to give everyone a free upgrade. Not only are people not happy with its functionality but it has so many problems. I'm sorry I upgraded. Anyway thats my rant...

First - check if you encounter the same problem under a different user login. In my case I had a different login where the icons were all showing.

Second - check if you have the file "IconCache.db" located under C:\Users\(name of the user where icons are disappearing)\AppData\Local. (Make sure your folders are not hidden by enabling show hidden files). If file is not there…

Third – copy the file from the profile where it is working and paste it in the same location as above. You will see the Icons appear immediately once you copy the file.

Hope this helps...

Hi all,

I did the in-place upgrade and that has fixed the problem. Not sure what the problem was, probably a bad key in the registry or broken shell extension. Hope it doesn't come back too often. Anyway all fixed, thanks for the help.