Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Desktop Icon Help

ussnorway

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• Feb 2, 2016

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

 

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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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Neemobeer

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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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Neemobeer said:

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

Click to expand...

 

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

 

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helpifIcan

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

see if this helps.

 

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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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Neemobeer

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Have you tried just deleting the shortcuts and recreating them?

 

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

 

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Great every once in while I get it right.

 

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