Windows 10: Windows 10 JPG Shortcut File Showing Blue Mountain Icon Fix Critical Bug

Many users have experienced a situation where their JPG shortcuts show up as Blue Mountain icons rather than the actual thumbnails they are connected to.I have solved this solution and posting this so that the Microsoft Engineers can pass this along to other forum users and Microsoft devs as another solution. The problem:Windows 10 shockingly cannot open more than 1 file at a time for certain file types such as images and videos. So if you try to resolve this issue manually you need to open 1 by 1 each affected JPG shortcut to restore it's connection. This is not practical - I actually did not

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Remove yellow/blue sheild icon from shortcuts


After upgrading to Windows 10, some desktop shortcuts have UAC shield icons. Is it possible to remove them?





EDIT: Here's a solution...
Launch the shortcuts via CMD:

1. Right-click the shortcut to Properties
2. Click Change Icon, then click OK when its window pops up (necessary step to avoid losing the icon)
3. Add the following, plus a space, to the beginning of the Target field, leaving the existing path at the end:
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   cmd /c start ""

I had previously solved this by editing a system icon file, but that method doesn't seem to be working as of update 1607, plus it was a lot more trouble.

 

Two bugs in GPU-Z - icon and version number

I ran into the very same issue with the latest GPU-Z version at Win 10 x64 - I rename the desktop shortcut and after some time I see blank icon for it, and reinstall-rename solution also won't survive restart. The solution I came up with was to extract the icon from GPU-Z and use it instead. This is yet to disappear after multiple restarts.

 

Installed Microsoft update. Now pictures show up as a blue mountain icon

Installed Microsoft update. Now pictures show up as a blue mountain icon. How do I get pictures back? Windows 10