So Start Menu and Taskbar icons are broken and not working in Windows 10. Now, go back to your Start screen and re-pin each Office RT program to the taskbar. 1. If this bug occurs, the taskbar icons themselves are not removed, and you can still interact with them, only that instead of the icon what you see is blank taskbar space. 3. When you click on the icons to launch the fly-outs, nothing happens. Your problem should be solved. Sometimes a blank or damaged icon may appear when a perfectly good icon was displayed before. Your desktop will stop responding and will go blank or black. Tap Unpin this program from taskbar. Commented: 2015-08-13. I have a large range of black and white wallpapers and my taskbar is black, but all of the colours look quite make it look quite messy. The black squares that appear behind some of the folder icons on an affected user’s computer don’t really do anything other than crumple the overall look of the icons and be extremely annoying as the functionality of any and all affected folder icons remains intact. Copy and paste the given below command and hit enter key. Some said that the taskbar icons come back after a few minutes, but this of course doesn’t happen to everybody, and waiting is clearly not a solution. With mouse, right-click each blank icon, and then choose Unpin this program from taskbar. Fix 3 – Using Command prompt. That's cool. taskkill /f /im explorer.exe. Windows creates two kinds of image caches that it uses to display icons like you see on your desktop as well as thumbnail previews of your image files. 2. The more icons there are, the more clogged icon cache database gets, which is why some of the icons may get broken. C:\Users\UserName\Pictures\Desktop Icons\blank.ico This will use the blank.ico file on your C: drive instead of accessing the transparent icon files on shell32.dll and your IconCache.db will no longer be corrupted, removing the black boxes and the shortcut arrows forever. For example, maybe you upgraded an application and the new version came with a new icon, but you still see the old icon on the desktop. 11 Aug 2010 #1: WhySoSerious. Therefore, to fix blank icons or other icon-related issues on Windows 10, you should try to reset icon cache: Resetting Icon Cache on Windows 10 Use Small Icons to Fit More on the Taskbar If you want a few more icons on your taskbar, but aren’t keen on resizing it, you can configure Windows 10 to show small taskbar icons. All my application icons came over properly. I use the application / vendor icons for my applications Liefr. 4 posts I want to make my taskbar icons black and white. Hi John, I am glad you had success. Icons Cache file aka IconCache.db is the simple file used by Windows 10 to store application icons images which in term is populated everywhere including Windows 10 start menu, taskbar and desktop. Sometimes the Start Menu may open but it'll be grayed out i.e. disabled. The problem I am having involves the new windows 10 EDGE browser which is now the default browser. Right click and choose to run as administrator. Often this icon cache file gets corrupted or fails to load and that results in issues like missing icons on taskbar and disappearing start menu icons. Do this for each blank icon. A. After rebooting your computer icons will be visible on Task bar once again. With touch, find the Office program tile, such as Word RT, and swipe down the tile to select it. Author. Right-click on any empty area of the taskbar and click “Taskbar Settings.” In the settings window, turn on the “Use small taskbar icons” option. Type this command to stop the File Explorer. Same thing happens with Taskbar notification area icons such as Action Center, Volume, Battery, Network, Clock, etc. Search cmd in windows 10 taskbar search. Windows 7. Windows 7: I want to make my taskbar icons black and white. Sometimes the icon cache gets out of date, causing icons to display incorrectly, or even go missing.