My icons that are regular windows icons are showing up like they are blank. They really are not but they are covered up by and blank white graphic. I tried deleting the icons cache and that didn't work. Otherwise everything else works fine.

Any ideas on how to repair it?

Thanks

Try this RebuildIconCache.bat batch file. It has worked well for me:

Start Copy/Paste below:

@echo off
cls
echo The Explorer process must be killed to delete the Icon DB.
echo Please SAVE ALL OPEN WORK before continuing
pause
taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F
echo Attempting to delete Icon DB...
If exist %userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db goto delID
echo Previous Icon DB not found...trying to build a new one
goto :main
:delID
cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
del IconCache.db /a
pause
echo Icon DB has been successfully deleted
goto main
:main
echo Windows 8 must be restarted to rebuild the Icon DB.
echo Restart now? (Y/N):
set /p choice=
If %choice% == y goto end
echo Restart aborted...please close this window
explorer.exe
:end
shutdown /r /t 0
exit

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Copy/Paste his file into Notepad, then Save As .bat. When you run the batch file it will rebuild the icon cache.

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried it and have the same result. I am going to try the refresh route and see what that does. I'm running it on a virtual partition on my regular machine so not a huge deal if I lose anything. This morning I found other things that were messed up. scf /scannow reports files need to be replaced but it fails and system restore just hangs. Not sure what is actually wrong but I think that it had something to do with me trying to find a good ATI video driver.

Then I would suspect the original installation is suspect. Since it's virtual, just delete and start over. If another installation has problems then suspect your download.

The ISO is directly from MS and didn't give me any problems. I still suspect the video gyrations that I went through is what caused my problems. I probably will just delete the partition but I wanted to try the refresh just to see what it actually does........What is retained and what is lost.

Thanks for all of your help.

The following excerpt is from an article at AddictiveTips.

Refresh your PC

The Refresh your PC option is present underneath Language control in General window. The Refresh PC utility checks whether the system files, Windows registry, and other important system components are working fine or not; on finding issues with Windows files, it will attempt to repair your PC. The Refresh PC utility doesn’t remove any of your personnel files, including document, video, music and other types of files during the PC refresh process. However, it is recommended to create backup of applications which fetch data directly from Windows native utilities to restore them later