Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a laptop HP Envy x360. It’s about 4 years old, I think. It’s been updated to Windows 11. For some ...

While we all love to keep icons and files on the Desktop for quick access, it results in too much clutter. As Windows changed, it allowed you to hide the desktop icons, so everything looked cleaner.

If you see white blank icons on Windows 11/10 Desktop, then it’s because the OS cannot load the icons attached to those programs and files. Windows maintains a database of icons which is used often ...