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any ideas what all these icons are they keep popping up on a friends Windows 8 pc

Hello all. Recently I'm having this problem with thumbnails using windows explorer, whenever I open a folder configured to use large or medium icons, all I see are blank squares instead of the thumbnails or icons. It seems like a refresh problem because just by going to the view tab and...

While installing a program, I inadvertently swiped my screen and now have tiles all over, I had the desktop set up much like Win 7 with icons and a dew tiles. I know it's probably something simple to fix it, but I can't figure it out . can anyone help?

About a month ago my Desktop icons began disappearing. It got to a point that over 90% of them were gone. I got them back by going into desktop and creating new shortcuts. Then one day they all reappeared. I had been shutting my computer down right after getting off it. Today I forgot to shut...

Graphics Card - GeForce GTX 555 Windows Version - Windows 10 Home Toshiba Screen Resolution - 1768x992 Graphic's Driver Version - 364.51-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql Location - USA First off, I've always set my screen resolution to 1768x992. That's what I had it set to for XP, Win7...

i dragged out my Microsoft word icon into the desktop from my start menu tile board. I thought i'd be able to drag it back in but... no. how can i relocate my icon/program into the start menu back with all the neatly organized Microsoft office programs?

I have just installed win10 tho only problem I have is a icon by the clock that says when you cilc on it (open Devices and Printers) how do I remove this

Windows 10 comes on a variety of form factors, which means so do your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. It’s important to make sure that your app looks great on whatever device the users are tapping, typing, or clicking on—even when it’s not open. One of the core experiences on Windows are...

It happened to me, on a small screen, the task bar suddenly refused to hide. But apps like Edge assume the task bar is hiding, so on full-screen use of apps, the taskbar hides some of the window you are working in. I found a solution. There was an unread message in one of the hidden icons...

All my icons on the desktop has a (document icon?) on top of them. I've tried to delete the IconCache.db and rebooted to no avail. Any suggestions? Here is a snapshot.

As of a few days, there is a distinct and confusing change in the way Chrome runs or, rather, the way it is presented in the taskbar. I have made a few illustrations that hopefully explain what my issue is: Link Removed is this clear as mud? I keep forgetting that Chrome is already running...

My desktop icon text have suddenly changed to shadow or outline. How can I change it?

Hi, I have this trange issue in that my Desktop icons keep resetting back to a default location which is the top left of my screen. It happens when I install a game and run it windowed then full-screen. Not only this, but sometimes I end up with the folder on my desktop and their icons and text...

The text below Windows 10 desktop icons is in a very narrow column. Is there any way to widen the text column?

Every time I log into my machine I have this icon on my desktop. I have a fresh install of windows 10 and this is the second time I have booted it up. I dont run any crazy weird software and only use this machine for work. I cant find anything online about it. "xxxmyIconxxx3undefined" is...

My computer was running fine yesterday. I was copying my iTunes music library file into Drop Box to transfer to my new computer. I left this unattended to do something else. When I came back to check on it, all of my desktop icons were gone and so was the task bar. Control, Alt, Delete did not...

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Hi, I've read other threads about this, and seen some video on Youtube on how to address this problem. But nothing has worked for me. So to summarise, often when I start my computer up (but not every time) the icons on Windows 10 have re arranged themselves. My first port of call was obviously...

that is, it's there, but when i click it, nothing happens. what gives?

If you lose your desktop icons make sure the computer is NOT in the tablet mode!!!!