Every desktop shortcut I create is a white note with a small picture on it

[Tezz]

Which is, to my knowledge, the basic picture for shortcuts for Windows.
If you've seen my previous thread (http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/864969481878747049/)
then you can see I've just gotten from one difficult problem to another. My games finally work and all, all folders exist and such, but the desktop shortcuts lack images. Which looks really nasty.

[Kiya]

You could try deleting the ones without images, then right click on the name of the game in your steam library and select 'create desktop shortcut'

[Tezz]

Tried that, worked on a few games. The rest, however, remain image-less.

[Kiya]

ok if your operating system is Windows 7 or Vista try navigating to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local on your pc, delete IconCache.db then restart your PC

[Tezz]

It.. Didn't work, which actually surprised me quite a bit.

[Kiya]

That is odd. With the problem you had in your previous thread, I have to ask - when is the last time you defragged your hard drive, checked your hard drive for errors and did a clean reinstall of windows?

Aside from that, the only way left would be to try and add the icons back manually - if you right click on the shortcut, select properties, then in the Web Document tab select Change Icon at the bottom right, you should be able to browse to the Steam->steam->games folder (note that is not the steamapps->games folder) and be able to find the correct icon for the game to select in there.

[Tezz]

Defragging my hard drive is something I've considered for a long time now, but I never got around to doing it. I've had this computer for years now, and I haven't defragged it even once.
I should probably do that, shouldn't I?

[Kiya]

That might be a good idea :-)

And seriously, consider leaving your PC to check the hard drive for errors overnight as well. You could have developed some bad sectors on the drive.

As Steam is the piece of software that for most people who play games uses the hard drive the most - rewriting to the hard drive with every game update - it is often where such problems start making themselves known first.

[Tezz]

The icons magically re-appeared. Everything seems to be in order now.

[BOT CoCa]

There is a quick fix :

1) Go to your shortcut icon and click change icon
2) Search for the program of your game in your steam library (x:\Steam\steamapps\common\) and select it and click ok.

You'll have a nice looking icon again !

[Washell]

Originally posted by CoCa #Road To Global Silver:

There is a quick fix :

Three years after the issue, nothing is a quick fix. ;)

[-SoloWay-]

хачики вы тупые

[BOT CoCa]

Originally posted by Washell:

Originally posted by CoCa #Road To Global Silver:

There is a quick fix :

Three years after the issue, nothing is a quick fix. ;)

This will be a quick fix for the next person having the same problem :-)

[George]

Originally posted by Kiya:

That is odd. With the problem you had in your previous thread, I have to ask - when is the last time you defragged your hard drive, checked your hard drive for errors and did a clean reinstall of windows?

Aside from that, the only way left would be to try and add the icons back manually - if you right click on the shortcut, select properties, then in the Web Document tab select Change Icon at the bottom right, you should be able to browse to the Steam->steam->games folder (note that is not the steamapps->games folder) and be able to find the correct icon for the game to select in there.

Thanks. pointing icon property to steam game worked like u said