Something I just realized/discovered, all the icons that changed to the black background suddenly were not on the Windows start menu. They had been added to the Start 11 menu only. The 6 icons that still showed the correct transparent background were the ones that were also on the Windows start menu.
Windows 11 Pro OS Build 26200.9445 Start 11 v2.8 I use Windows 10 style menu, but in diagnosing the issue I tried all the other styles and they all had the same icon issue. I can't post any screen shots because I fixed it as I described in the original post. I am just giving you (Stardock) a heads up of what happened, what I tried in order to fix it, and what finally did solve the problem. Something I didn't mention is that the normal (non-Start 11) Windows men
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They are whatever is in the actual .exe file of the program. I do not use OneDrive.
One day a few weeks ago when I clicked on the start menu (Start 11 v2 latest version) most of the icons suddenly had a black square background. First I tried removing an icon and re-pinning it but that didn't work. Then I tried deleting and rebuilding all the icon caches. Nope. I reset Start 11 to default settings, but when I added the icons back one at a time they still had black backgrounds. I tried switching through the different menu types but they all had the same issue. Wha
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