{"id":8299,"date":"2016-11-16T05:57:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T05:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2016-11-16T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T06:02:36","slug":"fix-desktop-icons-show-only-text-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-desktop-icons-show-only-text-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: Desktop Icons Show Only Text in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;All Desktop icons shows only text, my start menu doesn&#8217;t work, and my taskbar only show the icons on the right! I tried it in Safe Mode, and still the same! Please help me!!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All your desktop shortcuts are showing text only, without any icons? However, you can still click the shortcut text to open Windows Explorer or your application. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you a simple way to fix the desktop icons missing problem in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/desktop-showing-text-without-icon.jpg\" alt=\"desktop-showing-text-without-icon\" width=\"163\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Fix: Desktop Icons Show Only Text in Windows 10?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box. Type <strong>regedit<\/strong> and press Enter.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/regedit-via-run.png\" alt=\"regedit-via-run\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7481\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the left pane of Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:<br \/>\n<code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Icons<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Right-click on <strong>Shell Icons<\/strong> and select either <strong>Delete<\/strong> or <strong>Rename<\/strong> (rename it to whatever you want).\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/rename-shell-icons-key.png\" alt=\"rename-shell-icons-key\" width=\"577\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8301\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reboot your computer and you&#8217;ll find all your desktop icons are coming back. It&#8217;s that simple!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All Desktop icons shows only text, my start menu doesn&#8217;t work, and my taskbar only show the icons on the right! I tried it in Safe Mode, and still the same! Please help me!!&#8221; All your desktop shortcuts are showing text only, without any icons? However, you can still click the shortcut text to open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3116,3117],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-desktop-icons-show-only-text","tag-windows-desktop-icons-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}