Windows 10: Shortcuts' icons disappear in Start Menu

Whenever I move shortcuts to a folder in the Start Menu, a lot of times the icon turns into what appears to be a white blank sheet of paper. I've tried changing the icon, to no avail. They show up just fine in the Start Menu, just not in File Explorer. How do I fix this?

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Minecraft Windows 10 (Bedrock) Edition desktop icon dissapears. Where is the Minecraft icon file?

I dragged the Minecraft Windows 10 Edition icon from the Start Menu to the desktop, so I had a shortcut to the Minecraft Windows 10 (Bedrock) Edition. The icon will appear on the shortcut for a while, but then it magically disappears. This issue started
after the Fall Creators Update, v1709. Where is the exe or icon file for Minecraft Windows 10 edition? The Target field in the shortcut is grayed out, and it will not let you copy it.

 

Multiple tiles for same shortcut in Win 10 Start menu

I created a shortcut for an app I installed in Windows 10 Pro (version 1703). I pinned that app to the start menu. The icon for the app never wanted to appear in the start menu tile. It was instead some default icon, always. Even though the proper icon did
appear on the shortcut when on the desktop or if I pinned it to the task bar.

So I right-clicked my shortcut's tile in the start menu, and clicked "open file location." Aha. It took me deep in the app data folder, under my name, windows\start menu\programs, and there was the shortcut and default icon showing up in the list. So I deleted
that shortcut's entry from the start menu list of programs, thinking that now, if I again pin the shortcut to the start menu, the proper icon will show up.

It did! But at the same time, it created two tiles, not just one. Oh drat, repeat the process. Now it created three tiles. If you "unpin" any one of those, they all disappear. If you again pin the shortcut to the start menu, all of those tiles reappear.

Does anyone know how to end this ridiculous behavior? Is there a way to purge these other copies of the same tile? Many thanks.

 

Problem with folders feature in Start Menu or shortcut that are pinned to Start Menu in general? a screenshot would help

 

No, shortcuts I put in a folder within the Start Menu folder, in File Explorer.

In C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs.





Shiness- The Lightning Kingdom, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, to name a few, don't have icons. They show up fine in the actual Start Menu, just not in File Explorer.