Windows 10: Icons In Taskbar Keep Disappearing

I keep getting this blank document icon instead of the correct icon in Windows 10 Pro. It does happen with a few different apps but it's almost exclusively Adobe programs.

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.






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taskbar disappears

While I am working most of the taskbar disappears and I have to push the up-down arrow icon in order to see all of the taskbar icons. How do you keep the taskbar from disappearing?

 

Taskbar Icons Keep Disappearing

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Looking forward to your reply.

Regards.

 

Run this Thumbnail cache clear and reset
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

 

Hi. I already tried that and it didn't work.

 

Try right click on the taskbar icon, then right click on the application name in the drop down




Select Properties
Press Change Icon button




Select an appropriate Icon
Press OK

Launch Task manager
Select Windows Explorer
Press Restart button (lower right corner)

 

Pardon my ignorance. I'm still a bit green with Windows 10. What do you mean by Taskbar Icon?

 

In your original post you said Icons in Taskbar keep disappearing. The Icons in the Taskbar are called Taskbar Icons.

 

I thought that's what you meant, however, nothing like what in your example picture came up when I did what you said to do. All I got was this...





Or this in a blank spot...





Additionally, these programs aren't pinned to the Taskbar, if that makes any difference.

 

I It might make a difference

In this image
Right click on Combat Example 1





Select Properties
Change Icon

I think you just skipped a step - not right clicking on the program name to get to the properties option

 

I just got this...





Seems to be just the properties for the specific PSD.

 

OK, if you can run these programs, then you probably started them from start menu or desktop. What do the icons look like there. Right click and go to program location, and try switching icon image to another, and then back. This can be very problematic, and is a real pain in the a$$ to fix sometimes. I do not know what kind of document icon you have, is it MS Word? But you can do a repair, or uninstall, and reinstall to fix.

 

Thanks for all you help, guys. I think I finally figured it out. When I got the properties up for the desktop icon it appeared like this...





What I did was go into the program files for Photoshop, saved the Ps ICO. file to different location and then changed it in the properties.

Seems to have done the trick...




(Haven't done Adobe Bridge yet in the example)

What a serious pain in the chops that has been. Cheers for all the help again.

 

Excellent sluething!
You might not have to save the ICO file, try just pressing the Change icon button.
Browse to the install location for the application.
Select the icon from the related EXE

That shortcut uses a GUID and there's a reference to applications (Universal app?)
Adobe might not have set things up quite right for the install on Win10 - not sure.

Thanks for the solution that worked for you