Windows 10 Black squares are displaying in place of shortcuts for desktop icons in windows 10

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Sharatth

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I have made some changes for removing the shortcuts on my desktop icons.Since then I have been facing this problem. I have been given the below fix by the microsoft community.

Since you've made some modification in the registry, using any of these values (%windir%\System32\shell32.dll,-50) to remove shortcut arrows in shell32.dll will corrupt the IconCache.db.


Meanwhile, let's troubleshoot the issue by performing the steps below:


1. Press Windows key + R, then type in cmd and press Enter.

2. Copy and paste each command below one at a time into the Command Prompt window and press Enter after each command:


ie4uinit.exe -show


taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
DEL /A /Q "%localappdata%\IconCache.db"

DEL /A /F /Q "%localappdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\iconcache*"

shutdown /r /f /t 00



The fix worked out for me for the first time but I have to perform the above steps everytime I login into my PC.Could you please provide the complete fix.


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