Windows 10: Start menu tiles reverted to the browser icon

A couple weeks ago my Windows 10 had a big update. When the computer restarted, my START menu icons (maybe they are called tiles) reverted to to the browser icon. This happened to most tiles in my START menu, which opened a website.
See the screen shot below. All of these Chrome icons, previously, were the icon of the website (eg. Facebook). I have worked with microsoft with no success. Backed out all updates and problem seems permanent.

Any ideas?





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Start menu icons reverted to the browser icon

KB3154132

KB3147458

KB3140741

No change after doing as you suggest. The other account has the same problem. Yesterday, my icons were there. Now they are replaced by the browser icon.

 

Start menu icons reverted to the browser icon

Hi,

Thank you for bringing up your query on Microsoft Community.

I realize this may be frustrating. Now that you have me with you, let me take care of this.

• 
  What is the KB number of the update you have installed?
  

To know the KB numbers of the failing updates, follow the below steps:

• In the search box, type Update, and then, in the list of results, click
  Windows Update.
• In the left pane, click View update history.

Let us try to create a new user account and check if the issue persist:

• Press Windows logo key +R, and type
  ms-settings: and then press OK. This opens Settings.
• Select Accounts > Other users.
• Under Other users, select Add someone else to this PC.
• At the bottom of the page, select I don’t have this person’s sign-in information.
• At the bottom of the next page, select Add a user without a Microsoft account.
• Enter a name for the new account. If you want this person to sign in with a password, enter and verify the password, add a password hint, then select
  Next.
• Select Finish.

Hope it helps.

Let us know the status, we are glad to assist you further.

 

Hi have you tried these from Brinks Tutorials

Remember to run it in Command Prompt (Admin)
It will take some time
SFC Command - Run in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Or this is most likely the one you need
Icon Cache - Rebuild in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

If neither of the above ones work you may need to do this one
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade - Windows 10 Forums

Let us know how you get on
Also have you got Chrome installed at all as it might be corrupted

 

Hello @profguy, welcome to tenforums.com! *Smile

Chrome uses specific 'Visual Elements' to represent it's links throughout your system, and, for fairly good reason: so you are aware of which browser is opening which link, for example.

However, if you wish to show the site icon and your system accent color on tiles, you could do the following but, create a restore point before doing so, just to be safe:

Navigate to the location highlighted in red on the navigation bar, delete the chrome.VisualElementsManifest.xml file and the VisualElements folder inside the version folder:





then your tiles should retain the site icons and your system accent color:





(You can create individual icons manually but, this is much easier and faster!) *Wink

 

This works GREAT! You were able to easily do what the Microsoft techs could not.

But, I am curious. Instead of deleting the files, you suggest I can create my own icons. Could you elaborate? I might prefer that method.