Shortcut arrow icons gone after Windows 8.1

It is because your computer hasn't gotten around to loading all the icons for shortcuts. If you wait a second for your computer to load all the way. Watch the task manager for the disk to calm down then open the folder it should show up. After it finishes loading you can also hit f5 to refresh the file explorer and the shortcut will appear.

I am guessing that those are in the end of the load order since you don't really need an icon to use the PC. It still lists it as a shortcut. It could be that the theme hasn't finished loading but it is not a bug. Maybe a faster PC would solve it, mine is slow so I can see it others might not be able to because it loads so fast :)

Hope that info helps

Waiting for a while after a boot doesn't bring the arrow icons back. I doubt that it has something to do with a slow pc since I have a quite a new PC (i5 3570K at 3.4 Ghz). Also, I didn't have this problem before Windows 8.1 so a bug seems much more likely.

The thing is, that even without hitting F5 these arrow icons should just come up after a boot automatically.

In this case the hard drive speed is what you need to focus on. So starting up opening the task manager and waiting for all the disk usage to drop down and then opening the folder you still have no icons. It would be helpful to diagnose the issue if you noted how long you wait, disk activity at the time and weather they load or not. I would load with clean boot to lower startup programs to see if it helps

Hitting f5 refreshes the folder. If that works it means the have loaded.

You can have a dual xenon quardcore processor but it the drive is 5400rpm the processor doesn't matter.

It doesnt matter much i think since its happening in my pc too.I5-4570-HDD Baracuda 7200prm 160mbps average!

Sometimes they load fine,sometimes they dont ( which mostly happens).The bug came with 8.1,F5 ALWAYS works. :(

In this case the hard drive speed is what you need to focus on. So starting up opening the task manager and waiting for all the disk usage to drop down and then opening the folder you still have no icons. It would be helpful to diagnose the issue if you noted how long you wait, disk activity at the time and weather they load or not. I would load with clean boot to lower startup programs to see if it helps

Hitting f5 refreshes the folder. If that works it means the have loaded.

You can have a dual xenon quardcore processor but it the drive is 5400rpm the processor doesn't matter.

Even if I wait for like 1 hour the arrow icons don't come up. It simply doesn't have anything to do with loading times. Also, the arrow icons should appear without even hitting F5.

It's a bug that came along with Windows 8.1. Problem is there's no other mod around here who's willing to try to reproduce the issue.

In this case the hard drive speed is what you need to focus on. So starting up opening the task manager and waiting for all the disk usage to drop down and then opening the folder you still have no icons. It would be helpful to diagnose the issue if you noted how long you wait, disk activity at the time and weather they load or not. I would load with clean boot to lower startup programs to see if it helps

Hitting f5 refreshes the folder. If that works it means the have loaded.

You can have a dual xenon quardcore processor but it the drive is 5400rpm the processor doesn't matter.

I use a samsung 840pro ssd, waited 10 mins , nothing changed

DanzlZme are you using 8.1 ?, if yes do you get this bug as well ?