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

Will give this a try Monday...g'Nite all

And THANKS for all the help...MUCH appreciated.

Unc

 

speedy gonzo: sure thing. I just dont want you to do it to the Administrator account because according to your pictures, i see the icons for your files there, hence no problem there. Yet if you actually delete this file from the admin account nothing bad should happen. It will recreate itself once you restart. But yes, I want you to delete those from the other accounts, so they can get rebuilt from scratch again, which theoretically speaking, it should fix the icons

unco: sure thing. get some rest, deal with this later.

 

OK. Before I try deleting the icon cache files (which will force a rebuild), I will try the procedure you have listed 2 posts up (can't quote it b/c now I am on an ipad using a forum reader app). That should ensure the permissions are set to allow access. I think you are right about it being a permissions problem since when I try to change an icon (see my other thread), it says Access Denied which it shouldn't be.

Tomorrow. I am Eastern time so it's even later than uncle pine and my old button has to get up and go to work tomorrow. I may be able to fool with it over a Team Viewer link from work but remote reboots will be dicey so it will have to wait until I get home. Tomorrow I think we will kick this for me and uncle pine. That's what these forums are for. Thanks for your help and patience. Stimson too!!

 

I mean ShimShom. Auto correct is fighting me...

 

Hey - I think you did it!! I am (still) at work but I Team Viewered in and went through the process of adding the user(s) and setting full permissions as outlined above for each account's Appdata/local folder, and now I see the icons when I log into each account. I did not do a reboot. I think permissions changes take effect when you click Apply or Close and then log out and back in, and a full reboot is not required. Logging out and back in seemed to do it. I will confirm that this solved the problem (for me) and I really hope for unclepine as well. He had been fighting this for awhile and said he had a whole list of fixes that did not work.

Now this begs the question WHY would the user permissions for the Appdata/Local folder get screwed up and cause this problem? I have had Windows permissions do some strange things before but this is the first time I have seen this happen. I think most Windows permissions problems are usually caused by some inadvertent user action but they also can manifest with 3rd party programs - Adobe comes to mind.

Anyway, I will confirm when I am physically in front of the machine but I have no reason to think it is going to be different that what I see over a TViewer link. Now, pepanee, would you like to take a crack at my other mystery that may be found at Family & Other Users does not appear in Settings - Accounts

If not, that's fine. It is not really a problem - more of a mystery...

unclepine - please go through the process pepanee posted and I think you will find success !

 

Speedy Gonzo: Thanks so much for posting back on this, and I really hope that did the trick for you. Sorry I didn't see your original post about this, but you can follow along with this post. But yes, when you're home, I want you to verify that this process did the trick. I want you to restart the computer, log into the other accounts and check it all out. I really hope that this 'permissions' deal was the issue, because if so, then problem solved! =)
I hope Unco does this process correctly and gets it fixed too, as long as his technical computer issue was just like yours. Let's hope that it is that same exact problem.

And from what I've heard in the past: Some programs' installations tend to mess around with some folder/file permissions. God is the only one who knows why people program their programs to mess around with security permissions. I wish Microsoft can put a permanent lock on letting any program modify those settings, because they are a hassle to try to fix. That's practically the only valid sounding reason that I've ever heard for those settings to somehow mess up. But yes, always keep this technicality in your mind, because this is an important issue to always remember.

And I'm crossing my fingers for you, that this WAS the fix for you! =D
It really sounds like it is, but just do the restart and log into the accounts to verify that!

And of course! I'll check out your other post and see what I can do for ya =)

 

unclepine - you out there or did you throw your computer out the window? The fix above WORKED - at least for me. Do exactly what pepanee typed above and let us know what happens.

Good Luck!!