Icons Disappearing

[honkin]

I have a slightly odd setup in tha I have an internal SSD for Windows 7 64bit and nothing else. All other programs and storage are on an external drive.

I am not sure if this is what is causing this problem, but often in the task bar or start menu or even on the desktop, the graphics from icons are missing; there is just a blank placeholder.

Can anyone tell me how to rectify this?

The funny thing is that say I have Firefox open, the icon in the task bar will often be blank, but when I click on the icon to see what pages are open, the icon is shown in the popup. Is there a workaround to fix this issue?

regards

 

[WalkerA WinTeam]

Hi honkin,

Have a look here and let me know if it's the same issue you're having: Blank icons appearing in Taskbar during startup

Cheers,

Walker
Windows Outreach Team

 

[honkin]

Thanks for your reply Walker.

I'm not sure if this is the same issue as my icons are there, but just blank. They never actually disappear, they are just placeholders.

I have the latest drivers for my Radeon HD5770 card.

The strange thing is that I booted to safe mode and the icons were still missing. If I right click and select properties and select change icon, once I OK out of the dialogue boxes, the icons are there. The same thing when I boot normally. If I again right click and repeat that procedure, the icons appear.

When I do boot up, the desktop appears with all icons in tact, then a few seconds later, most of them disappear. Not all icons are missing. Adobe Acrobat is always there, as are a number of other programs, but many are just blank placeholders. This is the same on the desktop, taskbar and start menu.

I figure if it is still happening in safe mode that the issue is more with windows than my graphics driver.

Any help gladly accepted.

Shane

 

[kucing13]

i dont know if its the same but my pc sometimes creating a blank icon on its own on the desktop. just getting weird huh