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Amaribo
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Jun 02, 2026

All of a sudden icons disappeared from redirected shortcuts on our Windows 11 clients

Got a weird one for you.  Our staff all have redirected Desktops with shortcuts on them and basically no start menus other than the bare necessities.  It's worked great for us for almost twenty years.  Of course Windows 11 is doing all it can to torpedo that.

 

All of a sudden all the shortcuts on the Windows 11 PCs redirected Desktops have no icons on them.  The shortcuts still work, but it makes it awful hard to find what you are looking for without the icons.  The few Windows 10 PCs we still have do not have this problem, even when logged into the same accounts that we use on the Windows 11 PCs.

 

As a test I copied new shortcuts to the redirected Desktops and the icons never showed up.  If I view that redirected Desktop from a Windows 10 PC the icons are there.  I did copy new shortcuts from a Windows 11 PC.  I even went to the properties of a shortcut and went to change the icon and selected the specific .dll file that the original referenced and picked the proper icon but it still shows up as blank.

 

Has anyone out there experienced this?  I realize not everyone uses redirected Desktops but I thought I'd ask.

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