microsoft icons not showing

It was very simple.

Right click on an empty space on the desktop and the following dialogue box appears:

At the bottom you will see "show icon preview". When this was first opened - that is when I was having the problem of not seeing any of the microsoft icons- the box was ticked.

I unticked that box as you can see here below and voila, all icons are not displayed on the desktop ! So simple !

To solve the problem of finder not displaying icons:

Launch finder, on the top menu select "view".

Under the dropdown menu select "show view options".

Under the "show view options", make sure that the "show icon preview" box is not ticked.

And once again once I did these simple steps all icons were showing in finder.