Need help getting everything back to normal. I accidently deleted my steam shortcut on my desktop.

[The Tatonater]

I deleted the steam shortcut by accident and all my steam files are now all of a sudden on my desktop and all my games it says i need to reinstall. Except my game files are still on the computer. Anyway i can set everything back to normal?

[B-o-B]

Installed games are appearing as uninstalled
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998

[The Tatonater]

I tried with rocket league and it still won't recognize it.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Never run a steam exe anywhere outside the folder for steam.
Run steam exe in its folder.
Make shortcut for desktop.

For safety its anyway better to let windows display the type of files.

[Forcen]

If you can't undo it:

Make sure steam isn't running.
Find the any steamapps userdata folder or folders inside the steam folders or wherever they ended up and move them somewhere else, that folder or those folders contain all the games.
If you save those folders and their contents then you're all good because they contain all the game stuff.

When they are safe, try to uninstall or manually remove steam. more info about that here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9609-OBMP-2526

Then download and reinstall Steam, log in, exit steam and then put the folders back where they were. (inside the steam folder)

[Muppet among Puppets]

No need to install or uninstall steam.

Especially if you ran the exe ouitside the folder you might delete everything around it by that!

Just remove the files it created manually, and run the exe where it belongs. You made a copy, not a shorcut.

[Forcen]

Oh yeah, good point. Manual uninstall might work as a last resort though, no worries for your desktop in that case.

[Xx_koolkidzclub_xX]

Great, yay!