Windows 10: So a white page overlay showed up on most of my desktop icons today...

In that image you can see the problem, along with he nasty uac overlay which I also want to remove now there's an overlay of a page too almost completely obscuring icons with overlays I wouldn't mind completely deleting the files for...

So yeah anyone found a way to remove either or both of the overlays?

:)

 

How do I shrink the size of the blue arrow or blue/yellow checkered shield over the top of my desktop shortcut icons?

On my desktop shortcuts, the blue arrows on white squares are taking up almost the entire lower left quadrant of my icon. Also, some shortcuts have a blue and yellow checkered shield in the lower right quadrant. Combined, about half the icon is obscured.
Is there any way to shrink the size of arrows and shields that overlay these icons, or conversely, increase the relative size of the icons so that the arrow or shield obscures less of them?

 

icon overlayed by white page icon

In Windows File Explorer, on the View Tab, check the box marked 'Hidden Items' to be able to see the appdata folder . . .

 

Hello sketch,

It looks like your shortcut arrow overlay got messed up. If you like, you can download and merge the .reg file for the listed lnk (LNK) option in the tutorial below to restore the default registry entries and associations for shortcuts. *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8...dows-10-a.html

 

That would explain the overlay... upgraded from 7 where I had removed the shortcut arrows with UWT among other changes I made using that.

A little confused that it took like 2 weeks for the overlay to try loading.

And that link didn't help, restarted after running that and the overlay is still a massive page icon...

Don't suppose there is anything that can be done to tell windows not to use overlays on icons (even if you have to specify the icons) right? :/

 

You might see if you may be able to use UWT to restore the shortcut arrows since there's no telling what method it may have used.

 

Found a way, went through a tutorial you posted for 7 here: Shortcut Arrow - Change, Remove, or Restore - Windows 7 Help Forums to find the registry key they used and deleted the keys then restarted explorer. exe and now it's just shortcut arrows.

Now to remove the shortcut arrows again and hope they stay gone (then wait for a way to remove the uac overlay haha.

Thanks brink, never woulda figured out where the keys were without that old post from win 7

 

The LNK download included that, so I'm surprised it didn't work then.

I'm glad you got it sorted though. If you like, here's a Windows 10 remove shortcut arrow tutorial version. *Smile

Shortcut Arrow Icon - Change, Remove, or Restore in Windows 10

 

Weird, that file should have fixed it outright then.. ah well, and yeah already had that windows 10 tutorial open haha, found that when I first go 10 loaded as I was looking into removing overlays relating to the uac shield one which afaik still hasn't had a removal method found.

 

I had the same problem, and used the info in this thread to fix my shortcut icons.
Now shortcuts are fine but every non-shortcut has the big page overlay. Including large and small folder icons. Very obnoxious.

 

Hello Jon, *Smile

Which info did you use?

 

It appears that you have something else that is adding an overlay on these items.

You might see if doing a system restore using a restore point dated before this started may sort it for you.

System Restore Windows 10

 

Restore for C: is and has been on. There are no restore points. I doubt a malware infection because I use Windows Defender and a paid Malwarebytes, but I'll try a few more scanners.

 

I managed to convince Veritas System Recovery (nee Norton Ghost) that it really should restore the system. It didn't want to because it thought the disk layout had changed. Problem solved.

 

Great news Jon. *Party