This happened to me this morning and I found a neat little trick on the Microsoft site to fix it: on the desktop rightclick and go to Properties> Settings. Change the color quality/color depth to any other setting, wait for it to do its thing, click Now go back to the original color setting and the icons should be back to normal.
I don’t know if this always works but it’s better than editing the registry if it’s an isolated incident.
Thats insane. I’ve just bought a new laptop and this happened over and over to me. Googling led me to you.
When i read your solution i thought “yeah right, like that’s going to work!” but lo and behold, it did! I am gobsmacked. Shouldn’t be though given that its windows…
Thanks though!
Yeah, any sane person should question this as it doesn’t make any sense, but it does work.
it works but doesn’t last for me…