Windows 10: How to fix this Boxed/corrupted icon problem to windows deafult icon?

Hi,

how to fix this boxed icon problem & re-store to default? & what might be the coz of this kinda problem? one night it was good and next morning it looks like this.


Thanks.

windows 10 pro, v1909,

OSB - 18363.657

THIS IS ONE OF MANY ICON PROBLEM​

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Windows vista x64 computer icon always changing

what icons are you referring to?
In the Windows Explorer list or desktop?

 

Weird drive icons - Windows 7

It is possibly you (may) have a virus/malware.
It is always safe to do a scan with a good A/V program and a good anti-malware program.

However, if, they do not turn up any problems... you might want to try this fix --> Icons change incorrectly in Windows

Edit:

The Windows Club has Icon Cache Rebuilder, which you can try.

Run a scan of your system files, too. This should check and make sure your system files are not compromised (which shell32.dll is one of and contains the systems icons).
To do this run this command (without quotation marks) from a Administrative command prompt --> "sfc /scannow" (be sure to put a space between the "c" and "/")
It is explained here --> Use the System File Checker tool to troubleshoot missing or corrupted system files on Windows Vista or on Windows 7

 

black icons

So i recently looked into how to remove those shortcut arrows and stumbled upon this registry edit:

REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons” /v 29 /d %SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll,50 /f


after applying this and restarting the computer, my windows 7 now has black icons. Its not black boxes over the icons, its straight up the icon is black. when i refresh, i can see for a milisecond the real icon. Anyone know how to fix this besides a system restore? (i don't have any restore points *Bang Head :banghead

Edit and I also went into the registry and went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer, and clicked on "link" and edited the value for it to 0000 00 00 00 00

not sure if that also contributed to this problem.