Windows 10: Black square shortcut Icons

Just started my pc up and most of my shortcut icons are completely covered with a black square. the icons that have a green tick on the bottom left aren't.

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Remove shortcut arrow icons (corrupts to black square)

Each Winaero tweak is supported by a link to how it works. So, FWIW here it is for you: I don't expect it will be any different as you suggest.

Remove shortcut arrow overlay in Windows 10





Do you see the same if you create a new user for test purposes, log in as that user and then try?

 

Remove shortcut arrow icons (corrupts to black square)

That's brilliant NotMe! Would you be so kind as to walk a simple user like me through how to add the pixel without losing transparency or the ico format? Would MOST appreciate it. HATE those shortcut icons that mess up my custom ones.

 

Remove shortcut arrow icons (corrupts to black square)

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. Adding a new account initially seemed to work but after a few reboots it corrupted again. If I find the time I might try creating a new dll with the icon file in it, although I doubt that will help since the default dll also has a transparent icon that kept corrupting. Such a weird bug, no? It works about 25% of the time, and none of the other icons revert to a black square. I could also try making an "icon" that has one colored pixel in it, maybe it's something with how windows reads fully transparent icons, although I would expect it to get the black square always then. I'll update if I find a solution that works.

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Huzzah! Victory! At least for now. Adding 1 black pixel to the .ico file seems to have worked, 4 reboots so far and no ugly black squares. I can see the pixel if I look close but I think this is a solution I can live with. The file is here if anyone wants it.nearlyblank.ico