


Hi! I'm Chris Gardner, Your Tech Coach giving you Practical Help for Your Digital Life® since 1996. For rebuilding your broken icon cache, the process is a bit complicated, but our friends at have published a guide, see it at. For the latter, I will write a separate article about using DISM because it is a tool that can be used to solve a number of Windows problems.

Other ways including rebuilding a broken icon cache, and running a Windows utility to fix system problems (DISM). ’s webpage is at and includes hacks to remove, restore or change the shortcut overlay icon. Once done, that will restore your standard shortcut icon style. Once downloaded, double-click the Restore_default_shortcut_arrow.reg icon to add that code to your Windows Registry. For Windows 10 users, download this registry file from our friends at (link is ) to your desktop. There are several ways to get it back, but the easiest is to simply apply a registry patch.
