Windows 10: Start tiles lose their icons on reboot/restart

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Windows 10 Home
version 1803
OS build 17134.285


When I reboot or restart, some of my Start Menu tiles occasionally blank-out... by that I mean the icon disappears. The "blanked"tiles still take me to the appropriate app or link, but they is no icon or text label (if Medium or larger). I can easily regenerate the icon by resizing up/down and the icon is back. Then I can resize back to my preferred size for that tile.


It does not occur with every reboot, and it is not always the same tiles. But so far every single time the "Microsoft Solitaire Collection" that comes with the Win10 install has lost its icon at reboot/restart.


How do I fix this?


I've been told that this is a known bug of version 1803. Is this true? If so, how can I fix it? This is becoming quite annoying.


This is a relatively new computer. Only 4 weeks old and has every update available, except the October one which hasn't popped up in my Update Notification yet.


So far I have tried the following which DID NOT WORK......


1. Rebuild the Icon Cache in the Command Prompt.


a. Press ‘Windows key’ and type ‘Command prompt’.

b. Right click on it and select ‘Run as administrator’.

c. Copy and paste each command one at a time on the command prompt, 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


2. Reset all file associations to Microsoft recommended defaults.


a. Press ‘Windows key + I’ together to open ‘Settings’.

b. Select ‘Apps’.

c. Select ‘Default apps’.

d. On the right side, under ‘Reset to the Microsoft recommended defaults, click ‘Reset’.


I have read that other people have had this issue. How did they solve it? How do I solve it? I am going crazy.

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Live tiles not working on my new laptop

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community. I will certainly help you with this.



I appreciate if you could answer few questions to narrow down the issue and to provide you better assistance.

• Does this issue persist with all the Live tiles icon?
• Are you able to view the different app’s tiles icon on Start menu?

I suggest you to try the below given steps and check if issue gets resolved:

• Press the Windows key to open the Start menu.
• Right click on the Tiles and click “turn live tile on”.
• Repeat step 2 on the desired tiles.

Please post back with the results and the information asked, we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.

 

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