Windows 10: My desktop icons look like this, I believe it has something to do with onedrive though I'm...

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Cannot change desktop icon

Sometimes a desktop icon changes from what it was to a plain white folder. Might be something I did but not sure what.

To change it to the icon I want, I go:

1. Rt-click icon > Properties > Change icon
2. I select the icon I want from the thumbnails of icons.
3. Click OK
4. Click Apply

But the icon does not change. It just stays looking like a white folder.
HOWEVER, if I pin the icon to the taskbar, the icon on the taskbar does look like the icon I selected in step-2. So the change is registered with Win10 but the icon on the desktop just doesn't change.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

 

Remove Linux Desktop Icons

I am not sure whether this will work (Ubuntu does not have icons like that on the desktop by default), but I suggest opening the trash bin and sweeping the icons into the window showing the trash bin.

 

Desktop has a strange look and behavior!

Hello,

There has been a lot of changes on my desktop view. I have no idea how and why the following changes took place of my Windows unexpectedly. It has happened suddenly last week while I was working in my laptop, before the changes that took affect on my desktop
view - everything looked fine since I upgraded Windows 10 last year. The major changes are:

• Desktop: Desktop icons including all shortcuts are not visible anymore though 'Show desktop icons' is marked as checked. My desktop is occupied by
  Virtual Desktop (in full screen with live tiles), context menu cannot view by pressing the keyboard button or right clicking on desktop.
  

• Virtual desktop: My virtual desktop has gone in full screen and cannot resize from the
  Start, before changes it was not full.

• All apps open in full screen. 'Restore down' button does not work, for some apps - 'Minimize button' does not work. For many apps 'Close button' can only be visible while hover over the pointer and then the bar slide down with close (X)
  button visible.

• Taskbar: Taskbar auto hide does not work properly. Taskbar looks odd. It is not only because there are too many pinned items in taskbar. The problem is the 'Back arrow' key is staying at taskbar which is suppose to be in bottom of 'All
  apps' list. And the search icon also in the taskbar, which should not be there because I removed it from the options. The major problem is I cannot look for taskbar
  'Properties'. Because it is gone and replaced by an unknown menu when I right click the taskbar.
  

I have taken 'Cumulative updates' for my Windows yesterday. It does not help fix the problems yet. I am sharing some screenshots of all screen views of the issues including last Windows update lists in the folder from OneDrive for better understanding.

Here is the link:
http://1drv.ms/1LdXMrP

I seek your expert advice on this issue, please. Any help on this will be thankfully appreciated.

Very best regards,