Wrong game icon on windows taskbar. (Resolved).

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Valden21 Jul 23, 2016 @ 8:38pm

Earlier today, I accidentally unistalled one of my game. After I re-installed the game, I started it up again. Everything started up as it should, but than I Alt-Tab'ed to to the desktop, in order to check something online. However, instead of the games' actual icon showing up on the desktop as it usually does, it showed up differently. This time, it appeared as the "no icon found" icon, the one that looks like a file icon. Can anyone explain this?

I have Windows 8, and the game in question is Rage.

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ᴠᴀʀ Jul 23, 2016 @ 8:43pm

I have this same issue on Windows 7, but not all games have these kind of icons. (On desktop itself, not in taskbar)

Rightclick on empty icon > delete

Then I head back to steam > Library > Click game I want > rightclick > Create desktop Icon.
I tried this with 5 more games and it shouldn't be a problem. Every game with an empty icon was restored to it's original icon.

if you want them on your taskbar, just drag and drop.

Last edited by ᴠᴀʀ; Jul 23, 2016 @ 8:43pm

Valden21 Jul 23, 2016 @ 8:49pm

Originally posted by sm0:
I have this same issue on Windows 7, but not all games have these kind of icons. (On desktop itself, not in taskbar)

Rightclick on empty icon > delete

Then I head back to steam > Library > Click game I want > rightclick > Create desktop Icon.
I tried this with 5 more games and it shouldn't be a problem. Every game with an empty icon was restored to it's original icon.

if you want them on your taskbar, just drag and drop.

Thanks, but that doesn't really answer my question. The issue I'm having seems to be only with this one game, and I've never seen it do this before. Besides, I don't want the icons to appear on my desktop, just the taskbar.

Will the process you describe make the icons stay on the taskbar after I quit the game and sign out of Steam?

ᴠᴀʀ Jul 23, 2016 @ 8:58pm

Yes..

Create desktop icon.. Drag desktop icon on the taskbar. It's fairly simple.

Valden21 Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:06pm

Well, I would prefer the icon in question to disappear when I'm done.

ᴠᴀʀ Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:08pm

Just drag it back to your desktop.

If the same issue keeps coming back.. Are you using a 3th party cleaner that might have cleared "icon caches"

CCleaner does this if you specify this.

Valden21 Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:11pm

Well, I don't really want it on my desktop, either. Other than the Steam icon, the only icons on my desktop were the ones that were there by default, and I kinda want it to stay that way. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm being unreasonable, but I'm somewhat OCD about this sort of thing, and knowing that one of my steam games is behaving in a way that it usually doesn't worries me.

Last edited by Valden21; Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:13pm

ᴠᴀʀ Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:21pm

Could you check if the rage executable has the correct icon in /steam/steamapps/common/rage/

Here are the instructions to rebuild Icon cache in windows:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

If that doesn't help, try asking users on the rage forums if they're dealing with the same problems. Either rage doesn't have an icon included, or your icon's aren't correctly displayed by windows.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/9200/discussions/

Last edited by ᴠᴀʀ; Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:21pm

Valden21 Jul 23, 2016 @ 9:26pm

Originally posted by sm0:
Could you check if the rage executable has the correct icon in /steam/steamapps/common/rage/

Here are the instructions to rebuild Icon cache in windows:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/49819-icon-cache-rebuild.html

If that doesn't help, try asking users on the rage forums if they're dealing with the same problems. Either rage doesn't have an icon included, or your icon's aren't correctly displayed by windows.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/9200/discussions/

I unistalled the game, and I'm reinstalling now to see if that took care of the issue. So it'll take a few hours before I can check the executable has the icon right.