Just go into taskbar on Windows 8.1. Look for Processes, Windows Explorer, right click on it and restart. Should fix the paper icon. I do it all the time, works every time.
How to fix taskbar icons that look like white paper?
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I recently downloaded a bunch of Windows 8 style icons and replaced the default icons for a bunch of different programs (the ones pinned to my taskbar and some of the others that I frequently use. I have done this on about 5 Windows 8.1 machines and a Server 2012 R2 Essentials install but, this one computer started to give me issues with all taskbar icons appearing as sheets of white paper. All of the Icons are kept locally on each PC in a icon folder in the pictures folder when I go into the properties from the taskbar and click change icon then click browse it takes me to my icon folder and I can reset the image but it doesn't cause any change still sheets of paper. Would like to fix this issue. I saw a similar post but it applied to Windows 7 and didn't work for me.
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2015-06-12T23:38:56+00:00
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2014-01-10T00:52:19+00:00 Hey there, try these steps.
Open Command prompt in elevated mode.
Type "taskkill /im explorer.exe /f"
Type Enter after each line.
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db
Reboot to take effect
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2017-09-30T01:20:25+00:00 Just go into taskbar on Windows 8.1. Look for Processes, Windows Explorer, right click on it and restart. Should fix the paper icon. I do it all the time, works every time.
it works! thank you! :)
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Anonymous
2015-05-19T06:11:42+00:00 Hey there, try these steps.
Open Command prompt in elevated mode.
Type "taskkill /im explorer.exe /f"
Type Enter after each line.
CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
attrib -h IconCache.db
del IconCache.db
Reboot to take effect
This worked - whereas just renaming / deleting the IconCache.db file without first using "taskkill /im explorer.exe /f" didn't work (suggested elsewhere).
I only needed to open a CMD prompt window (from the start menu).
Didn't need to have "elevated mode".
Did lose my taskbar / desktop once I exited the CMD prompt window, so
had to Ctl-Alt-Del to be able to reboot.
Once done, icons back.....