If you notice that the icons are broken in Windows 11/10, first, try refreshing the desktop. If that doesn't work, you can rebuild the icon cache or disable the icon packs.

Want smaller icons on your PC? This guide shows you how to change desktop icon size in Windows 10 quickly and simply.

To make desktop icons invisible on Windows 11, make the name of the desktop icon invisible using the Character Map and then change the icon settings.

Windows makes it easy (although not obvious) to customize the Taskbar with custom icons. You don’t need a third-party app, just the icon files to replace the defaults.