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Recommended Section of Start Menu showing blank icons
Is it just me or does the Recommended Section of the Start Menu still show blank icons for files? This issue has been there for quite a while now. Rebuilding the icon cache did not help. SFC /sc...
Also had this issue, what I did to fix it was to open notepad, paste the following;
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
attrib –h iconcache_*.db
del /f IconCache*
del /f thumbcache*
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\
attrib –h IconCache.db
del /f IconCache.db
start C:\Windows\explorer.exe
save as icon.bat
click start > run > shell:startup in the box and press enter, put the icon.bat file in there.
Now it will run on startup, and now you shouldn't see any blank icons without any input from you.
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
attrib –h iconcache_*.db
del /f IconCache*
del /f thumbcache*
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\
attrib –h IconCache.db
del /f IconCache.db
start C:\Windows\explorer.exe
save as icon.bat
click start > run > shell:startup in the box and press enter, put the icon.bat file in there.
Now it will run on startup, and now you shouldn't see any blank icons without any input from you.
Yeah having this issue and this workaround will do the job tho the root of problem still persists.
Thanks for the help guys. It's shocking we must fix this by workarounds while a simple fix by MS should've solved this a long time ago.
