Delete them all to purge and rebuild your icon cache in Windows 10. This will force Windows to refresh iconcache, and remove the white blank icons. Refresh the Desktop, and the icons should be good.

To hide your desktop icons on your Windows 11 PC, right-click on the empty area on your desktop. From the appeared context menu, go to the View option and untick the Show desktop icons option.

A reader asks: “How do I get my desktop icons back on Windows? My nephew was playing around with my laptop, and now my desktop is blank except for the start button on the lower right.

To change what icons appear on your desktop simply right-click on an empty portion of your desktop to bring up a menu similar to Figure 1 below. Figure 1. Personalize Menu ...