Problems with Steam showing blank shortcut icons for your games?

[Nordschleife]

Here's the solution which worked for me having an empty steam/games folder (the folder where the ICO files reside usually) after I reinstalled Steam. I'm using Windows 10.

Go to Library - Games. Select the game you want to fix the blank shortcut icon for. Right click on the game, select Properties. Select the "Local Files" tab. Click the button "Verify Integrity Of Game Cache". After verifying has finished (it may take a while) a new game icon has been created in your Steam installation steam/games folder. Right click on the blank icon, select Properties and change the icon by hitting the "Change Icon..." button, navigating to and selecting the newly created icon file. Hit "OK" twice and have fun!

[latin00032]

引用自 Deathwish：

For anyone still having this issue, try the following please:
1. Open notepad and copy paste the following:

@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
CD /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local
DEL IconCache.db /a
Start explorer.exe

2. Save this onto your desktop BUT as a filetype choose "all files" and add an ".bat" to end of it, so your filename looks like e.g. this: IconCacheRenew.bat

3. Doubleclick on it, it will renew your windows Iconcache and ur icons will reappear

Its an windows related issue.

Still didnt work. Ive tried every suggestion in this thread. The only way to get an icon to appear is to manually associate the original exe icon from steam to the url file.

i cant gt steam to create a new url icon with the proper image attached.

[Сукин сын]

hello

[Porimoon]

引用自 henvaen6：

My steam icons just disappeared today, but I found the solution by accident. Windows had apparently forgotten how urls work so the default app for opening them was reset. Just rightclick the shortcut and select properties. Then you'll see there's no app for opening a url so click select and pick "internet browser", this both made the shortcuts work and refreshed all the icons.
If you pick steam, which seems like the right choice all the shortcuts will open steam and have the steam icon, this includes all url shortcuts that are not shortcuts to steam games.

Not sure if you'll ever see this but this was the problem I had and your post ended hours of frustration! Thank you so much!

[aminiqmal39]

引用自 henvaen6：

My steam icons just disappeared today, but I found the solution by accident. Windows had apparently forgotten how urls work so the default app for opening them was reset. Just rightclick the shortcut and select properties. Then you'll see there's no app for opening a url so click select and pick "internet browser", this both made the shortcuts work and refreshed all the icons.
If you pick steam, which seems like the right choice all the shortcuts will open steam and have the steam icon, this includes all url shortcuts that are not shortcuts to steam games.

Your are my hero today. Thank you

[EXPERIMENTONGOD]

Guys if nothing works here's another fix in case you lost your desktop Steam game icons after you did a clean install of Steam into a new folder:

Icon files for your games are stored in ..\Steam\steam\games

(WEIRD FOLDER I know; there's actually an "steam" subfolder on your MAIN Steam folder)

If you reinstall Steam onto a "clean" new Steam folder, you need to copy the icons from the old Steam folder to the new Steam folder.

Otherwise you will need to "Verify Integrity" of each installed game to get the .ico back into the "games" folder.

Then you need to delete and re-create the desktop icons so they get the new .ico "applied"

Desktop icons for Steam games are basically "internet links" (.url files) they get an icon assigned when they are created

[ceesl]

引用自 henvaen6：

My steam icons just disappeared today, but I found the solution by accident. Windows had apparently forgotten how urls work so the default app for opening them was reset. Just rightclick the shortcut and select properties. Then you'll see there's no app for opening a url so click select and pick "internet browser", this both made the shortcuts work and refreshed all the icons.
If you pick steam, which seems like the right choice all the shortcuts will open steam and have the steam icon, this includes all url shortcuts that are not shortcuts to steam games.

this happened to me a while ago, haven't figured out why it did what it did. i had tried to fix it before and it made everything the steam icon, but now they're all back to normal :> thanks so much!!

[76561199059360180]

:steamyay:

[Default]

it's easy go to any shortcut and "right click" --> "open with" --> "Internet Browser"
or
Go to default apps --> Choose default applications by file type --> .url --> Internet Browser

[GameSpirit]

引用自 Default：

it's easy go to any shortcut and "right click" --> "open with" --> "Internet Browser"
or
Go to default apps --> Choose default applications by file type --> .url --> Internet Browser

This solved my problem. Turns out it's that easy :D Thanks!

[Nz0]

Many thanks, man <3

[Dakenir]

Okey, the first answer is a temporary fix, but my problem is that Steam doesn't create the icon by itself on new installed games on the folder Steam/Steam/Games. Anyone?

[Juuzou]

Нрппппп

[rg545]

i cant see the 'change icon' when i click on properties. why?

[Iceira]

Problem is you need to open path #:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games

icon is there and view them, so OS while learn again the .ico file steam has lost.

i had to restore folder after after a clean up, cant say you need the cache.

problem is if you already have delete that folder then, no icon is there.

ps.
what prevent people to make backup of steam with no steamapps folder added.
even some games and userdata, artwork is part of this now.

this seem to be a most to do before wipe steam as clean install.

just wait to people lost all own created things steam dont have and is store only as local pc.

[AJ]

Alright so I've found a fix to this issue after looking online for a bit.

Steam automatically makes .URL files and the tool listed below converts those files to .LNK files.
This automatically fixed the game icons.

https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/steam-url-converter/

What you basically do is extract the .zip file and then drag all the Steam shortcuts that don't work into the .exe of the extracted folder.