Attached is a picture of the Quick Launch bar on my windows 10 setup.  The top image (I added red arrows) shows three of the icons as kind of ‘blank page’ icon.  This happens every time I reboot.  If I click on one, the icon shows up (look at the second picture, I clicked on the left most ‘blank page’ icon – it is the command prompt).  Anyone know how I can fix this so they show up after I boot?
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I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 professional on my father's Toshiba Satellite laptop and everything went smoothly except for the fact that certain desktop shortcuts appear as a blank white page.    I've tried:    going in and changing the icon to many different things reloading the icon cache by deleting the IconCache.db file uninstalling his Free AVG as he heard the virus scanner might be preventing it (it wasn't and he put it back.)   The one thing these icons have in common is that they are shortcuts to some very old DOS executables.  One of them is Word Star 2000 to give you an idea.  Does anybody have any other suggestions besides what we've tried?
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I have a program pinned to the taskbar. After I upgraded the program (I think) the icon broke. What I get now is what you see below; that ugly default application icon thing.    If I unpin it, I get the correct icon. If I then right-click on it, the icon breaks again. If I pin it again, still the broken icon. Unpin again and back to good icon. Very annoying. How can I fix this?
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I tried the Chrome development version for a few days, didn't like it because my tabs became broken and wouldn't load properly. I changed back to the live version, but I forgot to uninstall the development version, which gave me 2 chrome icons on my task bar, but they would both load a broken version of Chrome. I then uninstalled Chrome through the control panel and reinstalled the live version, but I now have one of those broken links on my task bar (a blank page with a folded corner) that points to a version of Chrome that's no longer there. Is there a way to remove this icon?
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I have got a new installation of windows recently. Now when I do unpin items from taskbar that were there (IE, Edge, Explorer), they do come back after restart. A pinned chrome does not disappear though e.g.  Anything to fix this issue?  P.S. Just created a new user, and he has the same problem  P.P.S. Sign out is enough to get it back, no full restart needed
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Not sure when this started happening but some time after upgrading to Windows 10 I noticed some of my search results were not showing up with what I wanted. For instance, when I searched for Word 2013 or Skype, I did not get any results. I decided to investigate and tried rebuilding the indexing file and moving it to a new location but it made no difference.  So I checked my start menu and manually tried looking for the shortcuts only to discover that they strangely weren't there. Also notice how some of my tiles have suddenly disappeared.    Strangely enough when I browse the actual location of the start menu folder, the shortcut for Word and Powerpoint are there.    I've checked that none of the folders/shortcuts are hidden or read-only and that the files/folders have sufficient permissions via the Security tab.  Any ideas how to solve this?
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The Start Menu in Windows 10 is not working anymore.  I click, and simply nothing happens.  I could use Cortana, build 9926, but when I click on the Cortana search bar, nothing happens again.  Do you know a trick to restore the menu?  Is it something to uninstall or to install to have again the menu working?  It's not fun to navigate into Explorer every time I need to launch software!
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Some Launcher icons disappear. I locked them but they have disappeared again after boot.  I have Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS which I have installed today and updated.
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I've  and rebooted my machine and now I get a black or blank screen.   How can I fix this?
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I have updated from Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to Windows 10 Pro x64 using Media Creation Tool.  After some weeks when I'm clicking on the start button nothing happens and the whole status bar becomes unresponsive. After trying to restart explorer.exe from Task Manager explorer.exe fails to initialize. It just shows the start button, Cortana and the search bar, TaskViewer (if that's how it is called) and the Action Centre button.  Any ideas?  I tried running:   sfc /scannow and no errors were found chkdsk /f and no errors were found   A full system restart seems to do the trick but after some time like a few hours it stops responding again.  My configuration:   CPU is Intel i5 4690K OC-d to 4.5Ghz GPU is AMD Radeon HD 7750 Saphire 1Gb GDDR5 Edition   EDIT: After some GOOGLE SEARCHING if i try to run from Task Manager C:\Windows i can actually open a window. The start bar isn't responding though and there are still no desktop icons or wallpaper.
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At far left of my top bar you can see a globe-like network sort of icon with what I interpret as a blue download arrow. This icon appeared recently for the first time for unknown reasons. Clicking it, right-clicking it, double-clicking it, etc all produce no effect. It's not interactable. What is this and how can I learn more about it and/or remove it if appropriate?
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After running Win 7 for some unknown period of time, the taskbar icon highlight starts to stick (video demo here: ). If I restart or kill explorer.exe and relaunch, it goes away.  Any idea what might be causing this?
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I want to change the icon in the start menu:    I'm willing to mess with the Registry, and I am well aware that I should make backups (and do!)  How will I accomplish this?
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I have an application which doesn't come from any Ubuntu repo (neither official, nor PPA) but available as tgz and supposed to be unpacked and ready to use. To be precise it is .   The problem is the  application when launched shows its own icon in Unity Launcher. After making a custom .desktop file and placing shortcut onto Unity Launcher (by dragging from the dash) and launching it I see two icons - one placed by me and another one with real application.  This is the .desktop contents:  [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=/opt/LightTable/LightTable Name=Light Table Icon=/opt/LightTable/core/img/lticon.png   One more thing. The /opt/LightTable/LightTable is bash script file and eventually /opt/LightTable/ltbin is being launched. I think this is the problem but have no idea how to fix the problem.
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I opened the PC in the morning, and this is what I got:      As is visible the icons of the UWA apps were no affected and the start menu also is unaffected.    When Control Panel is in category view the entire page is empty and in large/small icons the name is visible, no icons.  I deleted the iconcache.db in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local folder. Following the instructions here: . But to no avail and now windows is not rebuilding the cache.   I also ran sfc /scannow but no changes took place.  What should I do?  (01/01/2016 8:00PM GMT +5:30) Edit: I tried opening the system properties and I got 0x8000ffff error and this:        Then I closed the popup and pressed the OK button on the System Properties Windows and I got 0x8007057A error:      Opening the Image Backup Control Panel page I again got an 0x8007000E error:        I tried using system restore via advanced startup but once again I got 0x800FFFF error.  P.S.: I did try restarting, didn't work.
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I recently had a profile problem with my Windows 7 PC. My original profile in the registry had ".bak" appended to it and a new profile was created. I was unable to login with the new profile. I fixed this immediate problem by logging on in safe mode. This enabled me to restore my original profile.   However, since that moment the login screen now operates differently. Instead of showing icons for all the users with accounts on the PC, it now only shows two icons. The first icon is the last user who logged on and the second icon always shows "Other User". I have tried several different solutions recommended by other people with similar problems, but none of them have fixed the problem. I think the person who started this  has the same problem, but none of the proposed solutions helped him either.   Any help much appreciated.
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With Ubuntu 16.04, if you create a launcher (desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications) with a custom icon for a terminal application (so with Terminal=true) then when you start it, it will spawn a new standard terminal icon, and your custom icon will pulse and disappear within a few seconds.  In 14.04, it just worked as expected. (it would not start a new standard terminal icon).   Any idea what to do to change this behaviour? I have a few terminal apps that I want to launch from unity and the new behaviour is problematic (I lose trace of which is which since they all end up with the standard terminal icon)...
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Hello today I just upgraded from 8.1 to windows 10, everything went fine but I'm stuck on a simple thing.  How on earth can I change this really bad blue background on the windows login screen right after the lock screen?  I've tried changing images in C:\Windows\Web\ directories but nothing changed.  That background is driving me nuts...  UPDATE  So far the only thing that helps me get ird of the image is this (I'm posting the contents of a .reg file):  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  ; Created by: Shawn Brink ; http://www.tenforums.com ; Tutorial: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9108-sign-screen-background-image-enable-disable-windows-10-a.html   [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "DisableLogonBackgroundImage"=dword:00000001