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    • gingern
      gingern last edited by

      Only opera. I've read in articles that people had problems with windows 10 icons, when icons looked like white paper shit on some background, not like just white square.

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      • gingern
        gingern last edited by

        Omg, "paper sheet", i'm not english speaking.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          "Is the problem apparent with Opera in specific, or have you noticed others programs with a blank icon? Unfortunately, we do not have any Windows 10 PCs deployed here."

          It is only with Opera.

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          • albert71292
            albert71292 last edited by

            I had that issue. Got the icon to appear by removing from Start, going to the Opera program folder, right clicked the Opera application file from there, selected "Pin to Start", and the icon was back.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              did not work for me 😞

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              • kxwong
                kxwong last edited by

                C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\34.0.2036.50\opera.exe <<< pin this to start , not the launcher

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\34.0.2036.50\opera.exe <<< pin this to start , not the launcher

                  Doing this you will have to recreate the shortcut on every Opera update.

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                  • matzex
                    matzex last edited by

                    The error is in the launcher.visualelementsmanifest.xml.

                    The colors and icons are set there, but the file names for the icons are not correct.

                    Square150x150Logo = "Assets \ 150x150Logo.png"
                    Square70x70Logo = "Assets \ 70x70Logo.png"

                    150x150Logo.png and 70x70Logo.png do not exist, only additional versions for different scales and contrast.

                    I have created a copy of the 2 different sizes, each of the highest scaled version. These were then renamed, so that they will be found.
                    then I change only once the size of the tile and the icon was displayed.

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                    • briantrott
                      briantrott last edited by

                      Right click on opera.exe and select "pin to start" (This worked for me).

                      C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\34.0.2036.50 (or highest number folder) \opera.exe <<< pin this to start , not the launcher

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                      • deod
                        deod last edited by

                        matzex is absolutely right. I just had to modify "C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.visualelementsmanifest.xml" file.
                        Changed 150x150Logo.png and 70x70Logo.png entries to 150x150Logo.scale-100.png and 70x70Logo.scale-100.png accordingly

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