Windows – Icon for Chrome missing after updating Windows-10 to November Update 1511

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After updating Windows-10 to November Update 1511, icon for Chrome is missing as in the screenshot, also Chrome and Firefox icons show gray background instead of theme color. Chrome icon shows when its resized to Medium but doesn't look nice.
In previous build 10240 it was showing it properly. Is this a bug in Windows update or chrome?

Best Answer

I had the same "issue". Managed to get it resolved for Chrome, digging for Firefox. In Chrome's folder (where chrome.exe is located) there is a visualelementsmanifest.xml file. Its purpose is to customize the appearance of the start screen tiles since Windows 8 days. It's created by default by Chrome's installer. For some reason, 10240 was ignoring it, now 10586 is loading it and it specifies a grey color - #323232. Delete the file. It may take some time for the tile to update, unpin and repin it, etc. Actually, best option is to change the icon of the shortcut to something else, than revert to the default one.

As for Firefox - not sure - no such file for it, so I do not know yet what is causing the customized greyish color.

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