Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Desktop Icon Help

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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.
 
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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.
 
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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"
 
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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..."
 
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