When I try and make a desktop icon for a Steam game I just get a Blank white icon

[Star light]

I had a crash playing Home world, and since then some of my game icons have changed to white blank icons on my desktop. If I delete any and try to make new ones it’s just making more blank white ones again. I’ve tried system restore in windows. That didn’t help. The icons do work. But they just don’t look how they are supposed to. Any ideas please?

[_I_]

is steam running as administrator?

[Star light]

Yes im running as administrator. A double left click will start the game and a double right click has this options open, share, compress to, copy as path, properties. Under more options I have open, print,copy as path, share, restore previous version, send to, cut, copy create shortcuts, delete rename or properties

[Star light]

Everything was working as it should until this crash. A steam error message came up saying something about something had been violated and it was in different languages and with lots of lines of error codes. I then restarted my pc and noticed that some of the game icons that were normal before the crash had changed into these blank white icons. So I’m not sure if my steam has become corrupted. It seems to be working other than this icon issue

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Wipe the explorer icon cache.
Then in Task Manager, end process for explorer.exe when done end process for sihost.exe and this will reload explorer shell.

If an icon is still blank wipe, go to file properties for it and change the icon. Navigate to the game folder and select an ico or icon associated exe

[_I_]

icon files used are in
\\Steam\steam\games\

if the icon is missing, check in the games folders
library -> select game -> gear -> properties -> files -> browse game files, might be in bin subfolder

[Midnight Aurais]

i always just use a batch file

create a text file and rename it to like reset icons & thumbnails and paste this inside

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe
cd %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
del iconcache_*.db
del thumbcache_*.db
start explorer
pause

i keep a pause in there so it does not instantly close you can remove the line if you want it to close after it restarted explorer

save the file and change the extension .txt to .bat then run as administrator

[Star light]

Thanks very much for the help. Got the icons back now by going into the game folder and finding them there and copying them. That worked. Thanks again.

[Sigma957]

Restart desktop via Task Manager.

[_I_]

if the icon file that the shortcut is pointing to is missing, none of that will help
verifying game cache should fix, then refresh desktop (F5)

[Star light]

I tried the verify game cache and desktop refresh but in my case it didn’t help. To get the icons back I had to find them again in the sub folder for each game and copy them over. Thank you for suggesting that earlier. Thanks again.