Broken Segoe Fluent Icons in Windows 10 & 11
Back in June of 2019, my old computer's motherboard decided to stop working, and I found myself having to build a new computer. Originally I ran Windows 10 on this computer, since the license from the old computer could be moved over. And while this computer has been serving me well for the past few years, there's been a small graphical problem that I've not been able to resolve until now.
Occasionally, when installing a software update, I've noticed that certain icons would just turn into a blank box. And this was despite going back and clean installing Windows to try and correct the problem. And it was always something random, like the little lock icon to show an encrypted WiFi SSID, or something like that.
And it turns out, I wasn't alone with this particular issue. I've found a few articles on Microsoft's website. All of which suggested to re-install either the Segoe MDL2 Assets or Segoe Fluent Icons fonts to correct the problem. So I would take a copy of the font from my laptop and try to re-install it on my desktop. But that would never correct the problem. And a few of these articles also mentioned that this fix would not work for them as well. Yet none have offered a solution.
After years of scratching my head over this, I may have finally figured out the solution. I'm not sure what causes it in the first place. Possibly it's because I use a lot of custom installed fonts, which could be messing with these settings. But this solution seems to have fixed the issue.
So, in the past, I found that creating a new user profile would correct the problem. But at the same time, it would delete any fonts I installed. Originally I thought that the fonts were being stored in C:\Windows\Fonts. But it turns out that they're actually being stored in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts\. At the same time, there is a registry key that points to all of the fonts a user has installed. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts. So when I looked in that key, there is a string that reads Segoe Fluent Icons (TrueType). And I found that instead the value being set to "SegoeIcons.ttf", it was set to "SegoeIcons_1.ttf". Somehow a copy of the font was created and this registry key was set to use the corrupted copy to draw icons on the taskbar, start menu, and task manager.
Changing this value back to "SegoeIcons.ttf" then rebooting the computer finally ended up resolving this problem.
I'm not sure if this will help anyone, but I figured I'd at least document this fix just in case.
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