Windows 8.1 - Explorer icons not showing

Anyone else have an issue where the icons for files in Windows Explorer don't show, just looks like a blank page? It's not a huge deal, just odd that sometimes they show, sometimes they don't and others they show up after a little while.

 

Everything looks fine on my Windows 8 machine.
Windows has sometimes weirdest random glitches .

 

That happens after you install:

1- Silverlight (if you have it installed, uninstall it)

2- Office 2013

Office 2013 comes with its own OneDrive, what happens is, this causes havoc and sync problems since you now have 2 OneDrivers, one built into Windows and one that came with Office.

You need to uninstall the one that came with Office, then go to your startup entries using Autoruns

Fix:

1) Uninstal OneDrive using Geek Uninstaller then remove all the leftovers, then reboot





2) Download Autoruns

3) Extract the Autoruns ZIP, then launch it by running it as administrator

4) Go the the first tab which says Everything

5) Scroll down a little bit, then find the below marked entries, right click on each one then choose DELETE

6) Press RUN + R to open the Run Dialogue Box

7) Open registry editor from Run Command by typing regedit

8) Navigate to “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFileSystemObjects\shell\SPFS. Context menu”

9) Right-click on it(left pane) and select “ Delete” option to remove this key and all its sub keys.



10) Reboot

 

Icon Cache - Rebuild - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

nope, that's not the issue in this case, the issue will keep recurring after every reboot due to the 2 OneDrives installed

 

Maybe let the OP answer before jumping to conclusions?

 

fair enough, he can try both methods, hope yours works s its a one click fix

 

It would be better to check first if there are any file corruptions.
Open an elevated cmd, (Run as Admin), and type: sfc /verifyonly
If nothing is found, proceed with both the above mentionned methods.
If the sfc scan reports problems type: findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log >"%userprofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt" followed by Enter.
It will create a desktop shortcut which you can open in Notepad and see a detailed log.
A repair installation might be needed.
Hope this helps,

Regards,

 

Thanks will try later when I get home. I need silverlight for Netflix unfortunately.

Beamed from my G2 Tricorder

 

I ran the icon cache rebuild and that seemed to correct the icon cache issue. But I did run an sfc /scannow and it couldn't "fix" some issues, but a DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth did work.

This install is less than a month old. I have my basic apps and some games, nothing more. I hate when crap like this happens.

Thanks for your input.

 

I seem to have to do the icon cache rebuild every time I delete the installer for an app after installing it. The thumbnail for all instances of the program's shortcut in Explorer and Start Menu simply go blank. It's kinda weird. Never happens for me in Windows 7, only Windows 8. And it's definitely a Windows issue as it has persisted through multiple reformats.