Windows 10: Desktop background goes black or hovering over icons and doing square highlights makes it...

It all started yesterday when I was making a new folder on my desktop. I've started dealing with the desktop background going black or hovering over icons and doing the square highlights makes it black. Randomly at times, hovering over icons or square highlighting makes the desktop background show up again.I updated Windows 11, deleted as much thumbcache as I could, and did a sfc scan, but this problem still happens. How do I fix this?

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Desktop background goes black

I have a picture here of my desktop background. Notice how behind the icons is black. Now the entire background just blacked out. I also have problems with menus in apps. Notice how Synctoy isn't displaying the menu correctly. What is going on?

 

How to remove arrows from desktop icons in Windows 10 without getting black squares?

Part 1 - Remove arrows once (will break on reboot or re-login)

• Type regedit in the Windows search bar and select regedit at the top of the list.
  
• In the regedit program, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
  
• Right click on the Explorer folder, hover over New, then click Key. Name it Shell Icons and click enter or whatever to create it.
  
• Click the new Shell Icons folder. In the right pane, right click on the empty space, hover over New, and click String Value. Name it 29.
  
• Double click the String Value 29 you just created and give it the following value data: %windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50
  
• May or may not have to reboot I forget. Check your desktop icons first to see.
  

Part 2 - Fix the black squares problem

When you reboot or login after Part 1, where the arrows once were there will now be black squares. To permanently fix the black squares problem, a short script will run automatically every time you login to fix the icons before you see them. Non-programmers can easily follow these simple steps.

• Open Notepad.
  
• Paste in the following and save it to the desktop as fixdesktopicons.bat (name not important, file extension .bat is important). Basically it deletes the corrupted part of the icon data.
  
  
• Press Windows key + r
  
• Type shell:startup and press OK. This will open a folder where you can put scripts that you want to have run automatically whenever you login.
  
• Copy the script (.bat file) from your desktop and paste it into this folder you reached by doing shell:startup.
  
• Reboot the computer for changes to take effect.
  

Now whenever you login or reboot there will be nice icons with no arrows and no black squares either.

 

Information when hovering is distorted with black squares


The pop up information when hovering over an icon and in some files is unreadable in Win 10. See screen images.





If anyone had this problem and have solved it please explain how.