Repairing Broken Windows Desktop Icons
If a Windows 10 Update damages your Windows Desktop Icons, you can repair them en masse by rebooting Windows 10 into Safe Mode with Networking, as described in these instructions. Then restart Windows 10 normally.
- To refresh the Windows 11 icon cache
While depressing your keyboard's Windows key, strike the R key to display the Run window
type ie4uinit.exe -show into the Open: textbox
- strike the Enter key