Windows 10: Missing icons in 2 places for devices

Never seen this before in other OS, just noticed when i hook up my external WD Ultra Passport no icon shows in Devices and Printers just square white icon, same happens in notification area under Safely Remove. Also in Devices and Printers my Epson Printer no longer shows as a Printer Icon but a Folder icon with name of the printer. Maybe with printer it is driver or software related to Windows 10, but both of these devices never had this happen in Windows 8.1.

Both devices work properly and is seen in Device manager correctly.







:)

 

ALL FOLDER ICONS REPLACED to the DEFAULT VALUE after copy to an other place

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Folder’s ICON changed after copy/paste to the ICON Default value (new test results):

Drag a Folder from a place to another in the same PC Device (e.g. Drive C to Drive C):

The Folder Icon stays unchanged

Drag a Folder from a place to another between 2 Devices in the same PC (e.g. Drive C to Drive D):
The Folder Icon changes to the DEFAULT value.

Drag a Folder from a place to another between 2 Devices : one PC internal (e.g. Drive C)
to one PC external (e.g. USB Drive F) : The Folder's Icon changes to the DEFAULT value.

Drag a Folder from a place to another between 2 Folders of the same external Hard Disk (e.g. Drive H Seagate Expansion) : The Folder's Icon stays unchanged


Copy & Paste a Folder from a place to another between 2 Folders of the same external Hard Disk (e.g. Drive H Seagate Expansion) : The Folder's Icon changes to the DEFAULT value.

This case (Copy & Paste) from a place to another occurs for all tested cases (irrespective to the type of the origin and destination): The Folder's Icon changes to the DEFAULT value.

Regards,

MEIR

 

WIndows Fast Track build 10537 - Start Menu Icons missing

Sorry, it is 10547, not 10537.

I followed both suggestions and the icons graphics are still missing, but the place cards are still there.

 

Not idea of me wanting or not wanting it there in notification area, that part i know how to do, does not change lose of icon you see in first picture i posted in my post and in the Device and Printers the drive icon is missing too.

 

Yeah I just caught that lol I was looking at your pic for taskbar

 

Thanks anyway that just hide safely remove icon

 

I just try my external usb drive and I can see it okay . Actually mine isn't a brand . What I bought was an empty external usb enclosure and add what ever drive I want . The first one on the left is it

 

Wondering which brand,thanks.

 

Do you use a usb mouse ? I was thinking to try refreshing your usb in the Devise manager by refreshing I mean go to Universal Serial Bus Controllers expand it and delete what ever is listed in there if you can, you might not be able to use your mouse or keyboard if its usb but by deleting that area it will refresh the usb ports and it might do the trick . If your able to delete everything in there restart the computer afterwards when windows loads up again it will reload all the usb stuff fresh again

 

One process i was thinking about doing also. Seems i finally got them back by removing the device in Device and Printer and letting them redetect them again once plugged in external or turned on for printer, seemed to work best for external drive then the printer. Printer icon is default windows one, not one use to see in Windows 8.1 which was an image of exact printer. Now i believe this icon for printer comes from the software driver.

All in all printer always worked fine as just happen to notice it now ans printer has 2 flash card drives which were also blank white icons in This PC in explorer. Weird thing is when i run diagnostics on printer it says it is on a USB 3.0 port and be best to be on USB 2.0 as it's required by this printer being USB 2.0, weird part is, it is on a USB 2.0 port, only the USB external Drive is on a USB 3.0 port.

Driver issue with Epson since they have not updated since 2013, but say it is fine with Windows 10 and printer works fine so does USB External drive, pics below.

 

Glad you got it fixed . I'm sure there going to be fixes for things like this from Microsoft and from the manufacturers once they all get the drivers updated . In the mean time we just have to wait it out

 

Thank you, thank you for helping. Yes, i know this is probably the issue new OS. When i see anything i try myself to fix it and post here for any help i can receive. And they complained about Windows 8.1 then too *Think

 

You're welcome *Smile ... That's what so great about the internet ... People helping people when they can and forum sites ...

 

Indeed, google is one of my best friends on that subject too(but did not help me this time *Sleepy ) and i like helping others here.