📎 AI Summary:
The user reports desktop icons are displaying a document overlay icon after upgrading to Windows 8.1, with initial troubleshooting steps like deleting IconCache.db and changing themes not resolving the issue. Contributors suggest that the overlay may be caused by icon overlays or theme-related settings, and recommend actions such as adjusting desktop icon settings, checking icon properties, or recreating shortcuts. Ultimately, the user confirms that a fix provided by one of the responders resolved the problem, expressing gratitude and satisfaction with the assistance.
The user reports desktop icons are displaying a document overlay icon after upgrading to Windows 8.1, with initial troubleshooting steps like deleting IconCache.db and changing themes not resolving the issue. Contributors suggest that the overlay may be caused by icon overlays or theme-related settings, and recommend actions such as adjusting desktop icon settings, checking icon properties, or recreating shortcuts. Ultimately, the user confirms that a fix provided by one of the responders resolved the problem, expressing gratitude and satisfaction with the assistance.
Solution
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"
helpifIcan
Fantastic Member
It appears that something has caused the normal shortcut arrows to change to the document overlay.
see if this helps.
see if this helps.
