Windows 10 updating problem

[king1]

Talking about updates I stopped my desktop from updating a while back because once updated all my desktop icons turned into black squares, so I thought I would leave updating for a while to see if their was a fix by Microsoft in a future update, but sadly no, turned updates back on again and updated the lot which took a while and same thing happened after the updates just black squares for icons so used a backup I had made to reinstall an earlier version and turned updates off again .... grrrrr

That sounds like the icon cache is corrupted ...

I'd have a look at this.   I haven't used it but sounds like what is needed in your case
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/icon-cach...windows-10

Recommended from here
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/icons-tur...windows-10