14-01-2023, 02:12 PM
(12-01-2023, 03:07 PM)king1 Wrote:(12-01-2023, 12:06 PM)Oldfellah Wrote: 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
Very strange I went through the whole update scenario again this morning and all is well (at this stage) no black squares or anything, but bookmarked those links you posted just incase.
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