I recently bit the bullet and upgraded from Win7 to Win10. All seemed to go well but then my desktop icons (shortcuts and task bar icons) turned “generic” – white square with blue box.
After some searching found posts saying to rebuild icon files – that didn’t work.
Others said to run “ie4uinit -show” – that didn’t seem to work but tried again and sometimes it does.
Rebooting or restarting sometimes works to fix them and sometimes it doesn’t.
Shortcut/desktop icons can display fine and then for no apparent reason turn to generic.
All in the “start” menu appear fine no matter what. A few desktop icons seem to be unaffected (Adobe Acrobat, Quicken) and stay when others turn generic.
Is this a problem when upgrading from 7 to 10? Is there a fix/solution that will “stick”??