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Many 3rd Party Apps' icons SOMETIMES missing from START page.
About two months ago I decided to de-clutter my desktop, and populated my Start Screen with about 80 small tiles, each with its own icon. Most of the tiles are to 3rd Party Apps, but several are to Windows facilities such as 'Control Panel' and 'Windows Update' and more. Other tiles are just links to websites. It worked well and I like the result. However, every now and then, the majority of the icons are not displayed after startup. The tiles are still there, but are completely blank, and hovering over with the mouse reveals the name of the app or website. In this state of blankness, the tile can still be used to fire up the app or to navigate to the website. It is just the icon that is missing.
I have done some investigation, and have found that if I shut down explorer.exe and then start it up again, the problem is solved......until the next time it happens. I can see no way of predicting when the failure will occur again.
Any ideas, anyone?