Group Policy Desktop shortcut icons blank (white) on windows 8

I am using GP user preferences to create shortcuts on my users' desktops. On all my Vista/Win7 machines they are fine and the icons are what I set them to be. on all my Win8 machines the icon is just a blank white square. If I right-click and view the icon, the correct image appears. But when the user is looking at the desktop the image is blank.

I have upgraded a couple machines, scratch built one, and purchased an OEM version on a new laptop. All are the same: blank shortcut icons.

Surely I'm not the only person testing Win8 in a domain environment, right?

December 4th, 2012 12:58am

I can do this by creating a shared Icon folder set permissions for all users and placing short cuts to the program Icon in that shared folder, icon images work on the network computer.


  • Edited by colakid 17 hours 36 minutes ago
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January 24th, 2014 1:15pm

I can do this by creating a shared Icon folder set permissions for all users and placing short cuts to the program Icon in that shared folder, icon images work on the network computer.


  • Edited by colakid Friday, January 24, 2014 6:13 PM
January 24th, 2014 9:09pm

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