Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Desktop Icon Help

[Tit4Tat]

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.

 

[ussnorway]

is this system just been up-graded to 8.1 from 8 or recovered from a backup image of some sort?

 

[Tit4Tat]

Hello, thanks for the reply. It was updated a week ago to 8.1 and everything was working fine. The pc was shut down the night before and when I started it yesterday morning, the problem occurred.

 

[Neemobeer]

If you're talking about the white boxes on the icons, then it's possible you have a theme pack installed.

• Right click on the desktop and select personalize
• Try changing the theme to the default or just a different one and see if the icons adjust.
• If you don't want the icons to change, from this same screen, click "Change Desktop Icons"
• Uncheck "Allow themes to change desktop icons"

 

[Tit4Tat]

If you're talking about the white boxes on the icons, then it's possible you have a theme pack installed.

• Right click on the desktop and select personalize
• Try changing the theme to the default or just a different one and see if the icons adjust.
• If you don't want the icons to change, from this same screen, click "Change Desktop Icons"
• Uncheck "Allow themes to change

 

[Tit4Tat]

Thanks, but that did not work. It changes my desktop theme (background picture) but icons stay the same.

 

[helpifIcan]

It appears that something has caused the normal shortcut arrows to change to the document overlay.

see if this helps.

 

[Neemobeer]

Right click on the google chrome icon and go to properties > customize and click "Change Icon..." and post a screen shot

or if it's just a shortcut click on shortcut tab and "Change Icon..."

 

[Neemobeer]

Have you tried just deleting the shortcuts and recreating them?

 

[Tit4Tat]

Bingo! helpifIcan, you fixed it! Thank you so much and thanks to all for your help! Love you all. Lol.

 

[helpifIcan]

Great every once in while I get it right.