How to delete steam game desktop shortcut

[Pengu In Tux]

Hi, I tried deleting my desktop game shortcuts the usual way by right-clicking then deleting, but the shortcut was still there. I tried doing multiple and nothing happened. I tried selecting it and pressing delete on my keyboard and still nothing. Not even an error message. The icon is just still there.

I don't want to uninstall the games, just delete the shortcuts. Anybody know what's happening? I tried looking for some answers in the discussions but nothing seemed related to my issue.

[Pengu In Tux]

I also tried dragging the icons to the recycle bin and still no go. It's as if the icons are just ignoring whatever I do to them unless I wanted to open a steam game. They still work normally apparently.

[Zephyr]

Smash your desktop 🖥 LOL

[crunchyfrog]

Question is, are other icons locked on your desktop too? If so, you might want to try this (I'm assuming Windows 10):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/desktop-icons-are-locked-on-windows-10/1b52d8db-3759-44a3-b29b-393038344ab5

[Pengu In Tux]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Question is, are other icons locked on your desktop too? If so, you might want to try this (I'm assuming Windows 10):

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/desktop-icons-are-locked-on-windows-10/1b52d8db-3759-44a3-b29b-393038344ab5

well, I tried doing the first part and I found that I can arrange them freely, but I still can't delete them. The second part doesn't really apply to me since the icons aren't corrupted as they all still work normally.

[Pengu In Tux]

Found the problem, they were synced to my OneDrive so I couldn't delete them without deleting them directly from it. I swear, OneDrive is satan.

[Cathulhu]

You may want to look into why OneDrive syncs your desktop as that is not its default behavior.

[Pengu In Tux]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

You may want to look into why OneDrive syncs your desktop as that is not its default behavior.

I did. It turns out it was the setting that it automatically syncs with certain selected folders. That was the default when I looked it up since otherwise I wouldn't have set it up that way.

[Kyrozokcobaltlab.tech]

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