Windows 10: Windows 10 - Pin to Start - icons disappearing & changing

Discus and support Windows 10 - Pin to Start - icons disappearing & changing in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; problem still there and its happening on every reboot. very annoying. so i've moved my apps from the ext. USB drive onto an internal drive for now. i... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by biker66, Apr 4, 2018.

  1. biker66 Win User

    Windows 10 - Pin to Start - icons disappearing & changing


    problem still there and its happening on every reboot. very annoying. so i've moved my apps from the ext. USB drive onto an internal drive for now. i only have one app pinned to start thats on the ext USB drive. so i can test any Windows updates to see if MS fix the problem.
     
    biker66, Apr 4, 2018
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  2. biker66 Win User

    i'm running v1803 17133.73 and been having problems with icons changing and even disappearing. when they do change they all change to the same icon so i'm unable to know by looking at the icons which app is which! only by hovering the mouse cursor over each one and waiting until the title is showing do i know.. i didn't have this problem using v1709 (RS3). The icons that do change are for apps that are all stored on a removable USB drive. I don't see why that should make any difference as the drive letter for that drive stays the same. Anybody else having this problem? for now i've moved my apps onto an internal SATA drive and pinned to Start from that drive. i don't expect any issues but i would rather have these apps stored on my USB drive.

    :)
     
    biker66, Apr 14, 2018
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  3. cs127 Win User
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    I had some folders including System32, SysWOW64, and my account folder pinned to start menu.

    Once I opened the start menu and the icons of those three folders faded and disappeared.

    I tried pinning my account folder although it was already pinned, then opened up the start menu, the icon appeared again but its name was changed from "" to " (2)". I tried pinning another folder twice, but nothing weird happened. I unpinned
    " (2)", and the System32 and SysWOW64 folders and pinned them again, System32 and SysWOW64 icons got fixed and their name didn't change, but my account folder still had a "(2)" at the end of it. The filename itself was still "" but on the start menu
    it would show up as " (2)". Someone help me. WTF.

    EDIT: Nevermind, I right-clicked on it and clicked "Open file location", in the folder, there were two shortcuts "" and " (2)" which both lead to my account folder, "C:\Users\", but "" wasn't showing up, until I deleted " (2)" and
    "" replaced it in the start menu.

    Moved from: (Windows / Windows 10 / Desktop, Start, & personalization / Start Menu)
     
    cs127, Apr 14, 2018
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  4. Windows 10 - Pin to Start - icons disappearing & changing

    Pinned to start in win 10 but not visible

    Upgraded to Win 10 and start menu worked fine for several days then I tapped mail icon and it disappeared. When check in apps list, it says already pinned to start. Have tried to un pin and then pin again, still same result. How do I get mail icon to show
    in start again?
     
    John Oshoway, Apr 14, 2018
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  5. pepanee Win User
    pepanee, Apr 14, 2018
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  6. biker66 Win User
    ok i'll try running that as and when i need to. hopefully not. i just moved about a dozen or so apps back onto my USB drive where they were before.
     
    biker66, Apr 14, 2018
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  7. pepanee Win User
    You should still try it. It doesn't mess up anything really. It just makes Windows refresh all the icons in the database. It won't make you lose any icons pictures or anything. I use it on a frequent basis when one icon has issues remembering what it looks like. It won't reset anything. I recommend you try it right now. It could permanently fix that error to where you would never see that problem in the future hopefully.
     
    pepanee, Apr 15, 2018
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  8. biker66 Win User

    Windows 10 - Pin to Start - icons disappearing & changing

    i just used it 1st thing this morning. only the icons for apps on my external USB drive were messed up - they were all showing the same blank looking icon. when i ran the batch file it said there were 3 files it was denied access to. i should run the batch file as admin? i have a shortcut on my desktop to the batch file. if i right-click it there is an option "Run as admin". but it did work! all the icons re-appeared and before i rebooted. but i choose to reboot anyway. do you know if the reboot must be done?
     
    biker66, Apr 15, 2018
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  9. pepanee Win User
    Hi. I'm glad that it fixed your icons =)

    Yes, run it as Admin. I think you won't see the 3 access denied errors, and it would run fully to do what it needs to do to fix the error with the icons.
    The reboot isn't really necessary, yet I would still reboot to make sure that the icons still appear as being fixed. And also, I'm assuming that your machine has to eventually be turned off at a later time in the future anyways (and on again). =)

    I hope this fixed your icon error.
     
    pepanee, Apr 15, 2018
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  10. biker66 Win User
    still have this problem in the 17134.1 build.
     
    biker66, Apr 17, 2018
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  11. pepanee Win User
    Oh. I guess maybe someone else can pitch in on this one. I don't know what else you could do.
     
    pepanee, Apr 17, 2018
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  12. biker66 Win User
    its not happening too often. i'll live with it until MS hopefully fix it in an update. problem wasn't there in RS3 and i'm still running on the same computer hardware.
     
    biker66, Apr 17, 2018
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