WIN11 22H2 Taskbar Icons for Windows built-in apps are blank

Question

I have a problem on my desktop 22H2 Win10 Pro system that I cannot resolve.  The problem is that when I “Pin to taskbar” a built-in Windows app such as Weather the resulting icon in the Taskbar works, but the Taskbar Weather icon is a solid dark square. 

I’ve tried all the “fixes” that I can find (sfc, DISM, deleting icon dbs, etc.) and none of them work.  I know if I logon to the PC as another user that Windows apps pinned to the Taskbar show the desired icon.  So this is a problem just with the specific profile, not Windows itself. 

I know I could delete and recreate the profile, but that would be a lot of work and I would like to understand what causes this problem and how to fix it.

Any suggestions?  Thank you.

Answer 1

Clear icon cache and check the issue.

Open Windows Explorer

From the View tab, select Hidden items

Then select Show selected items

Go to C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer, where C:\ is the drive where you installed Windows 8 or 8.1 and User is the username of your account profile

Select all files that begin with iconcache

Right­-click on these files

Click Delete.

Empty the Recycle Bin