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I have an issue where some of the icons on my Task Bar will show as the attached, generic icon. I've tried searching for fixes but none of them worked. Some of the icons that turn generic are Visual Studio and Microsoft Dynamics NAV related icons. Some are custom apps.
I started to notice that the icons would return to normal after I performed an update to Visual Studio (2022). The last three times my icons turned to generic icons, I went and performed an update to Visual Studio. Once was to update an extension I don't use but wanted to see if it would help. It did. The next time I reverted the update to the extension. Again, it helped. Today my icons had turned to generic icons but there was an update to Visual Studio so I installed it right away. My icons are back to normal.
Is Visual Studio causing the problem? If not, why is it temporarily fixing the problem?
Hi TimSmythe-9504,
This could be related to Visual Studio. It certainly seems to coincide anecdotally. I would suggest a fresh installation of VS and possibly running a repair on your windows installation.
I hope this answers your question.
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When I logged in this morning, the generic icons were back.
I had Visual Studio 2015 still installed so I uninstalled it.
I'm pretty sure I was having this issue when I had Visual Studio 2019 installed and it continued after I installed VS 2022. I eventually uninstalled 2019 and the problem persisted.
When I uninstalled 2022 this morning, the icons were back to normal again. They didn't change once I re-installed 2022.
We'll have to wait and see if the problem persists or not.
One other note that might be relevant is that I'm working from home and using Remote Desktop thru a VPN to connect to my workstation. I don't go into the office much so I can't be sure whether or not the problem exists outside of Remote Desktop.
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It's been nearly a month since I re-installed VS 2022 and my icons have never reverted back to the generic ones. I'm considering this issue solved.
I apparently have more than one profile on here. Tim-5417 is also me.
The problem came back so this was not a permanent fix but it lasted longer than anything else I've tried. Rather than re-install this time, I just installed an outdated .NET SDK and my icons returned to normal. After uninstalling the SDK, they remained normal.
Also, I'm not working from home anymore so remote desktop doesn't seem to be a factor.
Let me know if I should unaccept the answer. It did help, it just wasn't permanent.
