After Windows update, notepad app misses its icon. What could be wrong/how to fix this?

After a recent update, notepad app lost its icon: it is not displayed in the corner of the window:

in the taskbar:

in the file system and basically everywhere (the screenshot below is for C:\Windows)

What could be wrong and what can I do about this? Notepad is not an UWP app if I understand correctly (and notepad is the only app that lost its icon as far as I can see); for start menu (I'm using Open Shell) I tried to set the icon manually and it tells that "notepad.exe doesn't contain icons":

and the list from SHELL32.dll doesn't seem to contain the icon as well:

(well, I won't make screenshots covering the whole set, but you got the idea)

May be somebody knows where it should be located? Could it be located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs itself? (since I have Programs organized into folders of my liking, I've deleted some folders with links "restored" in Programs by update; but it would be weird to store the icon only there)

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3 Answers

Try refreshing the icon cache by executing the following command

ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache

for windows 10 use

ie4uinit.exe -show

Alternatively try this or this tutorial

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In the Properties of Notepad, click the button of Change Icon....

Enter as file name %windir%\system32\notepad.exe and pressEnter to find your icon. Click OK twice.

In my opinion the correct settings for Notepad.exe should better be:
Target: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe
Start In: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%

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