[SOLVED] All icons suddenly dissappeared?

[wilczur]

This has happened randomly before but it would fix itself after a reboot. Already tried rebooting and shutting down 4 times. Coincidently this happened after I left for bed at night letting the PC update and shut down. I tried uninstalling the latest updates but did not work either. All of the icons in file explorer are gone too, including the stuff on the side, the disc drive icons, all images, apps ...

 

[Lutfij]

Perhaps try and roll back to a time prior to the update via a system restore. See if this guide helps as well.

 

[wilczur]

[Moderator note: edited post to remove self-awarded best answer.]

Okay I fixed the issue, I just reinstalled Windows while keeping my files. All my software was removed and now I have to spend 7 years redownloading and setting up everything but oh well, the problem was fixed.

 

[WayTooManyAccounts]

I was going to ask if you could try making this batch file and executing it. It is my double whammy of clearing the icon cache.

taskkill explorer.exe
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\
attrib –h iconcache.db
del iconcache.db
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\
attrib –h *.db
del *.db
start explorer.exe
cd %homepath%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
dir iconcache*
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
del iconcache*
dir iconcache*
Explorer.exe