some start menu icons on Windows 10 are sometimes Blank

Question

i am using windows 10 version 1803 and some of my start menu icons are sometimes blank. Not my Windows icons but some icons from installed program.

See also: [Tile icons missing from start page in Windows 10 ](https://superuser.com/q/1255080/115481) with similar [solution below](https://superuser.com/a/1474582/115481) — Mark Mikofski, Sep 13 '19 at 15:40

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 04 '18 at 10:42

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I fixed it.

Right click on the taskbar.
Click on Taskbar Settings.
Go to the Start Menu settings (on the left-hand side)
Turn on Use Start full screen.
Lave the settings and display your start menu as full screen.
Go back to the settings and turn Use Start full screen back off.

edited Oct 04 '18 at 10:42

answered Jun 10 '18 at 04:21

ind2000

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Worked for me; you should mark as the accepted answer lol – Ortund May 04 '19 at 09:52
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This works but it only temporarily, after a while the icons are gone again. – jhhwilliams May 05 '19 at 06:46
Sadly, this didn't help me. My icons are good in start menu, but wrong when searching. – Qwerty Feb 25 '22 at 18:22

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 23 '19 at 18:45

Well, I can't figure out how to do it permanently, but this seems to work for me. I created a file in notepad and saved it as "restart_explorer.bat" and then pasted these 2 lines in there.

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe 
start explorer.exe

If it's not restarting your explorer, then you can add a 3rd line with the word pause to see what errors you're getting.

taskkill /f /im explorer.exe 
start explorer.exe
pause

This seems to reset my icons, for now. I leave it on my desktop and run it whenever they go blank.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 28 '22 at 10:03

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I fixed this issue by unpinning the affected Apps and then pinning them back but not from the start menu itself. I opened the start menu folder:

user

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
common

%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

And pinned back the Apps.

edited Feb 28 '22 at 10:03

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answered Nov 24 '21 at 17:00

Hugo Silva

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some start menu icons on Windows 10 are sometimes Blank

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