Windows 10: file icon circled in brown. cannot open or print. rebooted, turned system off. asked internet

file icons are circled in brown. rebooted. asked internet. tried regedit, got no where.

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Shortcut to print without opening Visio File (VSDX extension)?

Since, without opening file, I can print VSDX file by following steps:

1. open file with Internet Explorer
   
2. get Internet Explorer to print.
   

Is there a shortcut ? My wish to have:

1. right click file with VSDX extension and print just like Office documents?
   
2. VBS using COM
   
3. Powershell script
   

Thanks Ahead!

 

System Icons on taskbar

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

Are you referring to the clock system icon on the taskbar?

If so, I suggest you to follow the steps mentioned below:

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  Click on the search bar on the taskbar.
  
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  Type system icons.
  
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  Under Turn System Icons ON or OFF, turn On the Clock and check with the issue.
  

Hope it helps.

 

Files have a brown box on their icon and dont open in Windows 11

I have this problem too and can't find a solution.

I don't know if this will be helpful, but I went to go click on the right-click the dropbox icon in the system tray to check my sync settings, and the icon wasn't there. I realized that dropbox wasn't "running". I started up dropbox, and once it started running, the brown box was replaced by the appropriate dropbox sync icon (grey cloud, closed green circle+white check, open green circle+green check), and I was able to access those files again. I hope this works for you and everyone else who is having this issue because it was driving me crazy that there were absolutely no posted resolutions to the issue anywhere online.

This is EXACTLY what the problem is. It's a Dropbox issue, as far as it seems. Once I fired up Dropbox, my ugly brown file box overlay disappeared and was replaced with a cloud. All of my files can now be opened just fine.

Thanks for the help, everyone!!