Game shortcuts have no icons

[Damian]

Hello everyone,
I've reinstalled my windows and kept the SSD with all the games on, I just selected the drive with all the games and the games showed as installed.

When creating a shortcut the shortcut has no icon but it works.
I want to have icons because it just looks bad.

[Iceira]

That'a sounds like you reinstall steam on c-drive and did not use old steam from that old place it was once.

[Damian]

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

That'a sounds like you reinstall steam on c-drive and did not use old steam from that old place it was once.

How are you expecting me reinstalling windows and keeping Steam on the C drive?

[Iceira]

Originally posted by Bot Damian:

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

That'a sounds like you reinstall steam on c-drive and did not use old steam from that old place it was once.

How are you expecting me reinstalling windows and keeping Steam on the C drive?

ahh then it make sense why you lost all icon from that steam lib.

#:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games ( .ico )( icon's files to all desktop shortcut's )

and then you wipe old steam on c-drive all its .ico file is gone.

ask steam support for rebuild icon , i have tried and explan thisbefore , but i sure you can do better. after that os reinstall.

[Damian]

Originally posted by |<- Iceira ->|:

Originally posted by Bot Damian:

How are you expecting me reinstalling windows and keeping Steam on the C drive?

ahh then it make sense why you lost all icon from that steam lib.

Ok continue, do you know how to solve it?

[Iceira]

yeah you should have backup, or move data away or restore previous steam folder content on same place.

ps.
i know it can be diffcult depend on the option you have , and same time , could be nice with app fetch missing icon and refresh content in that lib.

dont forget we other have learn this from blank icon way back at windows xp even and win3.11 then we extract them from files, so even refresh view in that ico lib is part of solution.

gl try explan that to steam support.

[Iceira]

to understand the refresh , is to browse down to folder location and view them icon , if many 500+ or more then you need to wait for system load them, same as a picture folder , i bet many know that

that will then fix missing blank icon with (( F5 refresh )) on desktop screen (assume game do have .ico, some very old steam titles dont have it. )

gl with it.

[El Gap0]

Hey Guys,


I had this issue just now too.


The main solution I found that worked, with the latest update of windows, due to me not actually being able to find the "find Icon" button was to press "Change" on Opens With:, and went into the Steam>Steamapps>Common>XXXX and Clicked on the Application that it used to launch it.

the Icon appeared straight away.


Hope this helps

[Tigo]

I've created a little PowerShell script that recovers all the missing game shortcut icons [github.com] on GitHub.