Desktop icons turned into Globes

[Welene Wios]

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I deleted the icon, then made a new one and it's still a Globe.

So I went to the game folder (Steam>SteamApps>Common>GameFolder), left click the .exe and selected "Create a desktop shortcut" and all is fine but it still changes into a Globe after every reboot.

It's bugging me. Any fix?

[UberFiend]

Not certain. Try go into Control Panels, System, Advanced Settings, Hardware, Device Installation Settings & untick Replace Generic Icons.

[spladam]

FIX:
1.) Start your Task Manager (right click in the task bar at the bottom of the desktop and select "Start Task Manager")

2.) Click the "Process Tab at the top and then press the "E" key, this should take you straight to the "explorer" process, or just select it with your mouse. Right click and select "End Process". This will kill your DeskTop, but don't worry.

3.) At the top of Task Manager, select "File" and then select "New Task (Run)" In the little box that appears, type "Explorer" and press enter, your desktop will come back up and your icon should be correct. Happens to many people it looks like, spread this around if you can.

Although this has probably already fixed itself with a restart, but if it happens again in the future, try the above.

[Garfunncle]

I have the same problem and have tried both options, and what the OP has tried also. None has worked.

[spladam]

Which game is it? When you right click the icon and select "properties" is the target of the shortcut a Steam URL or a file path (ie: C:\Games\Doom2")?

[Garfunncle]

It's any game right now weather that be something as big as tf 2 or a small little flash game. The ones that work are fine. The ones i need shortcuts for, and try to make them do it. ALSO there is no path file. the web document tab is gone

[spladam]

So the games you already had shortcuts for have normal shorcut Icons, but only new Desktop icons have the globe?
I'll do some searching on the net tomorrow, I have to get to bed now, but you might want to try closing Steam, righ clicking the Steam shortcut and choose "Run as administrator" and THEN try having Steam put a desktop icon on the desktop for that game.

I'm not sure really, if your Steam installation is a little messed up, you can try opting into the Steam Beta Client, installing it, and then opt out back to the normal client. It's a shot in the dark, but it might fix your Steam client not making icons problem.

To select the beta, go to Steam> settings> account and select "change" in the "Beta participation" secton in the middle, then select "Steam Beta Update" (has really cool streaming feature right now), and then click "ok". Steam will update itself.
Do the same to uninstall the Beta Client.

[Garfunncle]

I'll try that tomorrow at 7 pm 11/22 PST. And yes, my old icons have paths, and work fine, but right now, about 50 games don't have proper shortcuts. It's the globe and when clicked on gives the notification "the target "" of this internet shortcut is not valid go to the internet shortcut property sheet and make sure the target is correct."

[spladam]

Ok, if your problem has yet to solve itself, try this.

Open up "Computer" (Windows file exploere) and either paste this into the file path box to the left of the search box " %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local " or navigate to Users>Your Name>AppData>Local, and then delete a file named "IconCache.db" and THEN do the trick to stop and restart Explorer that I showed you above. Try this before you try that crazy Steam beta installation fix thing that probably won't work (LIke I said, a shot in the Dark)

Let me know how it turned out.

[Rieso]

I god the same problem, solved it this way:

You can find the icons to all your steam games in Steam>Steam>games. Copy the missing ones to somewhere else. Rightclick one of the bugging icons >Properties>Webdocument>Change Symbole and browse for and select the copy.

That fixed it for me. gl

[UberFiend]

It's because the Steam folder, Advanced properties have been set to encrypted.

[Mgbjr16]

I had the same problem after reinstalling OS. I have games on 2 different drives. All the games on C drive were fine. Other games on other drive had globe shortcut.
-Right click on globe icon.
- Under web document tab there is a chance icon button, click it.
-at top is says look for icons in this file, click browse.
- Mine went to steam file that looked like the correct icons, but when I clicked them and apply nothing happened. But it's because those icons were for the wrong drive. When you select browse make sure you go to the hard drive that holds the game icon you are looking for. It may take a couple clicks to find it. Mine were under (drive letter/steam library/steam apps/ common/(name of game)/binaries/win32/icon Some games were a little different and if there was no .ico file the application file with the icon would work too. Hope that helps anyone else.

[spladam]

Originally posted by Rieso:

I god the same problem, solved it this way:

You can find the icons to all your steam games in Steam>Steam>games. Copy the missing ones to somewhere else. Rightclick one of the bugging icons >Properties>Webdocument>Change Symbole and browse for and select the copy.

That fixed it for me. gl

Nice, it's good to know where they are at, good work.

[G3n0c1de]

Just solved this problem, hopefully it helps someone.

I tried the solution given by Rieso, but for me there was no 'Web Document' tab in the properties window of the broken shortcut. So I couldn't change the icon.

I eventually tried this: creating a shortcut of the buggy shortcut, and lo and behold: the correct icon appeared.

So I then deleted the broken shortcut, and changed the name of the copy to the original name... and the icon disappeared, replaced with that globe. So I changed the name again, and the correct icon appeared once more.

So try renaming the shortcut. That worked for me.

[UberFiend]

@Genocide: That's great, but some people have 100 or even 1000 globes. Go to the Steam folder Properties & remove the Encrypted tick.

[spladam]

Originally posted by UberFiend:

@Genocide: That's great, but some people have 100 or even 1000 globes. Go to the Steam folder Properties & remove the Encrypted tick.

Hey UberFiend, where is that encryption tick? Are you talking aobut the one under Properties> General> Advanced (in the attributes section)?