Windows 10: ALL icons missing...from entire system...!

Discus and support ALL icons missing...from entire system...! in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; 2 days ago, I was trying to load up some vacation pics from a Cd from the DVD drive when phone rang. After returning to the 'puter, the DVD was buzzing... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by unclepine, Oct 15, 2016.

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  1. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User

    ALL icons missing...from entire system...!


    2 days ago, I was trying to load up some vacation pics from a Cd from the DVD drive when phone rang. After returning to the 'puter, the DVD was buzzing around all over and not stopping with the screen going black. I shut everything down, retrieved the CD, and rebooted to home screen. My desktop was back with the original wallpaper I had...BUT...the icons were missing with only the text names of the shortcuts/files left behind...?! No matter where I went on my system, all the icons were gone. The system works fine. I can surf from Firefox or IE, I can open pics files and view them. I can even play CoD with no issues at all. I can open all my drives, I have 1 500gb HDD, 1 128SSD, and 1 250SSD. I can retrieve files from all these drives and open/read/view all information, but there are just no icons left. I ran sfc scannow, 3 different full virus checks, 2 different Malware scans, but still no icons, just the icon text. Windows reset as per MS instruction will not work, it says there was a problem resetting. I uninstalled Explorer and tried to rebuild the icon cache but did not work. The other tricks using command prompts from the run screen did not work either. I am retired and basically "winging" this mess, so go easy on me, as I am not a computer wiz...! I must have tried 20 different "fixes" to no avail.

    Any and all help appreciated.

    Laurie

    :)
     
    unclepine, Oct 15, 2016
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  2. SAGAHARALDSDOTTIR
    SagaHaraldsdottir Win User

    System Notification Tray Missing

    My entire system notifications tray is missing. The Date and Time Icon is still present but everything else is missing. I can't get to my battery icon, wifi icon, Google Drive icon etc. There's no arrow to expand, it's just gone...

    TIA for any help y'all can give.
     
    SagaHaraldsdottir, Oct 15, 2016
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  3. ROBERTJWIN
    RobertJWin Win User
    All icons in the system are missing.

    Go to Settings app > System > Display and change the scaling level slider from what it is at present (probably 100%) to something else, then back again.

    If that doesn't help then yes, try
    rebuilding the icon cache    .

    For all we know you didn't revert all your registry edits properly, or worse broke something unknowingly while you were in there.
     
    RobertJWin, Oct 15, 2016
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  4. PEPANEE
    pepanee Win User

    ALL icons missing...from entire system...!

    pepanee, Oct 16, 2016
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  5. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User
    Thanks pepanee for jumpin in here, but I checked my VERY long list of fixes attempted, and that one was already tried and did not work...:-(

    back to the drawing board...

    Unc
     
    unclepine, Oct 16, 2016
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  6. SIMRICK
    simrick Win User
    simrick, Oct 16, 2016
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  7. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User
    Hey simrick, no restore point to go to. Tried the in-place upgrade but Windows says it could not do this...!! The stupid part is that the whole system works fine but as I said, there are NO icons to be had and the text that is left on the desktop will not show properties, so it's a real screw up for whatever is messing with the icon cache...???
     
    unclepine, Oct 16, 2016
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  8. PEPANEE
    pepanee Win User

    ALL icons missing...from entire system...!

    It is possible that the folder that contains the icon cache (or the icon cache file itself) has blocked permissions from your account.

    Let's check it out.

    1) Open a File Explorer window, such as: C:\
    2) In the address bar above, copy & paste this: %localappdata%
    3) Press Enter
    4) What happen?
     
    pepanee, Oct 16, 2016
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  9. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User
    In a word...nothing...! :-(

    Unc
     
    unclepine, Oct 16, 2016
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  10. PEPANEE
    pepanee Win User
    Lol? please be more specific. Did a window pop up stating that you cannot go here? Is there anything shown in that window?
     
    pepanee, Oct 16, 2016
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  11. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User
    In another word...nothing...and I mean nothing, nadda, zip, zero, niet...! No message, no error, not a sausage...as they say in England...!

    Unc
     
    unclepine, Oct 16, 2016
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  12. PEPANEE
    pepanee Win User
    LOL no sausage?? I was hoping your computer can pop out some Sausage out of the cd-rom drive.

    Go to: C:\Users
    (What is your user account called?) Double click that
    Do you see "AppData" folder?
     
    pepanee, Oct 16, 2016
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  13. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User

    ALL icons missing...from entire system...!

    The search says no items were found to match search...or smething like that...!

    Unc
     
    unclepine, Oct 16, 2016
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  14. UNCLEPINE
    unclepine Win User
    I found the AppData folder and it shows Local LocalLow and Roaming. Thing is you cannot open properties of any of these files...?!
     
    unclepine, Oct 16, 2016
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  15. PEPANEE
    pepanee Win User
    Try to open the "Local" folder. Does it open?
     
    pepanee, Oct 16, 2016
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