Windows 10: My custom icons no longer works in Windows 11

Hi thereI've been an old user of custom icons for almost everything in Windows, since Windows 95. I have custom icons for drives, folders and mainly shortcuts. All my icon files reside in a mapped network drive called Q: the referenced path Q: points to is in a physical drive G:Everything worked fine even in Windows 10, but when I migrate to Windows 11 the problems started.With not little work I was able to recover my desktop custom icons and my folder shortcut custom icons. But my application shortcut icons still doesn't work for example; shortcuts pointing to xlsx, docx, pdf files, etc.

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IE 11 not working

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.



I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

Windows 10 has a built-in troubleshooter to check and fix issues with Internet Explorer. I would suggest you to run this troubleshooter to check if the issue is with your Explorer.

Refer these steps:

• Press Windows key +X, select Control panel

• Change the view by option on the top right to Large icons
• Click on troubleshooting and click on the view all option on the left panel
• Run the Internet Explorer performance troubleshooter

And also refer the link below and check if it helps.

Internet Explorer help

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Best way to add- change the current icon a custom icon for a shortcut

After trying several different variations found posted on the web and not getting what i needed, I hope someone here might know the solution.

I am working with a long script that in its final steps creates a shortcut to a website which works as needed but the same script (which offers an option to add a custom icon) will no longer do so. The shortcut icon is either a blank white square or at best a "globe". It creates a perfect working Url link to a website while many of the methods I found for creating a URL in a command script failed to work. While this is very simple in GUI, this is the end step of a long process that needs to work as written.

I can use vbs but would prefer not to use PS if possible. This command is extremely old and may have issues with current Windows 10 x64 . It once worked properly but will no longer add the custom icon.

Any method I could use to add the icon to the created link would be great as long as I can add it in the final step of the process which creates the link.

Windows 10 x64 Latest Updates

 

Internet Explorer 11 not working on Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

Windows 10 has a built-in troubleshooter to check and fix issues with Internet Explorer. I would suggest you to run this troubleshooter to check if the issue is with your Explorer.

Refer these steps:

• Press Windows key +X, select Control panel
• Change the view by option on the top right to Large icons
• Click on troubleshooting and click on the view all option on the left panel
• Run the Internet Explorer performance troubleshooter

And also refer the link below and check if it helps.

Internet Explorer help

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.