Windows 10: How do I fix this grey border issue on some icons? It should be transparent

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Issue in Windows 10 with lack of icon transparency for System icons





Just started using Windows 10 and I'm seeing that system icons are not transparent and instead I'm seeing the white and grey placeholder background (chequerboard) you usually see to indicate a background is transparent.

Other icons such as the Chrome icon are unaffected by this issue.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

 

Certain desktop icons suddenly changed sizes with new grey borders

At some point recently, with no relation to anything I was doing (can't remember exactly what I was doing but it was either playing games on steam I've played before, working on word docs, or letting the computer sit afk) a bunch of icons on my desktop shrunk and have a grey border attached. The issue is that not all of them shrunk, there seems to be no reasoning to which ones shrunk. When I set icon sizes to small it removes the grey border and they all seem to be the same size, however my icons are normally at medium, a kind of necessity with a 2k monitor. The only answer I've found (to change the size of all of them to small) simply won't do. I've heard there's no way to individually change sizes of icons however they're different sizes now so there must be some way. I have already tried messing around with icon sizes from Ctrl+scroll, any increment larger than small adds the border and shows a size difference between icons, anything smaller than medium is much smaller than my usual desktop sizes.

 

Grey Borders in Photos App

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mode. It is only when the app is in full-screen mode that the border disappears.