Blank icons on desktop ...


  1. l8n321
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    Blank icons on desktop ...


    Hello

    Can you please help me with this problem, for some reason all the programes on my desktop icons are blank, this has caused me not being able to open the documents on my compute. Can you plz sugest anything that could get my programes up and running and get the icons back.

    Thanks
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  3. brummyfan
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    This Tutorial might help:Icon Cache - Rebuild
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  4. Maguscreed
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    You may also want to scan for malware/virus infection.
    It's the most common cause of that kind of problem.
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  6. boohbah
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    also you could try right clicking the desktop and select refresh.
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  7. l8n321
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    No the problem is still there
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  8. Maguscreed
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    am I to understand that you can not open any programs right now?
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  10. l8n321
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    yes cant open programes
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  11. t-4-2
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    l8n321 said:
    No the problem is still there
    Suggestion :
    Assuming your taskbar is still working.....

    Right click at Taskbar > Task Manager > Processes tab > right click explorer.exe > End process > Applications tab > New Task... > in the Open box, type explorer.exe > OK

    Hope this will bring your desktop icons back to normal.
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