Recently I opened my Control Panel and saw that a blank icon came up before my list of icons. Has anyone else experienced this before? Is it safe to delete it?
When I try creating a shortcut on the desktop, I get a dialog box saying:
Windows could not create the shortcut. Check if the disk is full.
Clearly the disk isn't full, since I still have 102GB of free hard disk space.
EDIT: *I did a manual search for .CPL in Windows Search and then looked at the list in TweakUI and got 3 unmatched .CPL files. They are ncpa.CPL, sapi.CPL, and QuickTime.CPL. I clearly know the QuickTime one, but not too sure about the rest. SCRATCH THAT, I FIGURED IT OUT… BUT IT'S NOT THE BLANK ICON.
Best Answer
TweakUI has an option to "Rebuild icons" - have you tried that?
Here's a standard set of icons:
If you are not missing any of the system icons above, and you don't know what the phantom icon is, then by all mean get rid of it! TweakUI can hide it so you can forget it. You could possibly succeed in a hunt for the CPL file in your Windows folder, but I don't know if deleting the CPL is enough. There could also be registry entries somewhere.