All icons in start menu and desktop are showing blank


  1. dazeyduke
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    Windows 7 Home Prermium 32bit
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    All icons in start menu and desktop are showing blank


    Just upgraded WIndows Vista to Windows 7 from a download. The installation appeared to be fine but all of the icons on the desktop have lost their pictures and none of the start menu icons are showing any design nor do they work. I've tried deleting the icon cache and restarting but that hasn't worked. Any ideas?
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  3. brianzion
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    Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64)
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    hi have you looked at brinks tutorial How to Rebuild the Icon Cache in Windows 7 Icon Cache - Rebuild - Windows 7 Forums


    If one or more of your icons are not displaying correctly, or that your icon cache is corrupted, then you might consider rebuilding the icon cache to reset and reload the icon images into the icon cache.

    The icon cache is located at the hidden system folder location below:

    C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Local\IconCache.db
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