Windows 10: Squares in place of up/down etc

Hello!

I tried to search the forum, but could not find the relevant threads. Please point me.

I have the known issue of seeing squares instead of ^ V <> in the scrolling bars and other areas in Internet Explorer. I recall there was a font issue, so I used a Windows 7 DVD-ROM, booted into that and then pressed SHIFT+F10 to get a command prompt. I then deleted any seg*.ttf, ver*.tff and symbol.ttf files from Windows Fonts folder and copied these back from a backup. Didn't work. When back in Windows 10 I saw again these annoying squares instead of the proper symbols. Please remind me of the solution or point me to the relevant thread.

Thanks.

PS: In case that it matters, the version is Windows 10 Pro 32-bit build 10586.420. I haven't tried SFC yet since I have done some customizations that will be lost if I restore system files, but if there is no other solution I'll do it and redo the customizations.

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Black Squares are displaying in place of shortcuts for desktop icons for Windows 10

Hello Sharatth,

Since you've made some modification in the registry, using any of these values (%windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50) to remove shortcut arrows in shell32.dll will corrupt the IconCache.db.

Meanwhile, let's troubleshoot the issue by performing the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + R, then type in cmd
and press Enter.

2. Copy and paste each command below one at a time into the Command Prompt window and press Enter after each command:

ie4uinit.exe -show

taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F

DEL /A /Q "%localappdata%\IconCache.db"

DEL /A /F /Q "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*"

shutdown /r /f /t 00

Update us on the outcome.

Regards.

 

Black Squares are displaying in place of shortcuts for desktop icons for Windows 10

Hi Melchizedek,

I have tried with the above steps and It worked. Thank you