Have you checked the customization options for the game/s? Right click the game in your library and select properties, select the customization option.

If you get no luck there, check your themes and settings under personalization, hold your Windows key and press I, select personalization, then themes, you should see an option for desktop icons.

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Have you checked the customization options for the game/s? Right click the game in your library and select properties, select the customization option.

If you get no luck there, check your themes and settings under personalization, hold your Windows key and press I, select personalization, then themes, you should see an option for desktop icons.

Ok for your first request, nothing other then default there.

and for windows personalization i have none.

I should mention its not all my games. just some.

Have you tried deleting your appcache folder? You will need to exit Steam completely, navigate to your Steam folder on your hard-drive, delete the appcache folder then restart Steam, it will recreate it the next time you log in.

If you don't want to delete it completely, move it to your desktop, once Steam has restarted you will see a new appcache folder, replace it with the one from your desktop, see if that resolves the issue with your missing icons.

Tried that.
no go

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Tried that.
no go

We're not having much luck here

I've had a look around, try this thread, there might be an option you haven't tried yet:

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/discussions/forum/1/392183857628047411/

It's quite a big post and some users are using Windows 10 so it might not work on your OS, I'm using Windows 11 and have never had this issue (so far).

ok i will go through it tomorrow

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ok i will go through it tomorrow

Hopefully, there will be an option there that can fix it. The only other thing is deleting the icon database file, it's hidden on your hard-drive, but that's more specific to Explorer and probably won't have any effect on your Steam icons, which is why I've not mentioned it previously.

ok wait, that might be it. I purged explorer from my system. I removed a whole bunch of crap from windows like cortana. I did the same on windows 10 and didnt think that would have been a problem

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ok wait, that might be it. I purged explorer from my system. I removed a whole bunch of crap from windows like cortana. I did the same on windows 10 and didnt think that would have been a problem

Wow, I didn't think that would work which is why I didn't mention it. Hopefully, it's now fixed?

I have no way of testing if this is the problem. Windows doesn't supply the files i need to restore the registry.

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I have no way of testing if this is the problem. Windows doesn't supply the files i need to restore the registry.

There are tools available to reset or repair your registry, a quick Google search should list them, it's not something I'll mention here as it can sometimes have unforeseen consequences if you don't know what you're doing.

There are tools available to reset or repair your registry, a quick Google search should list them, it's not something I'll mention here as it can sometimes have unforeseen consequences if you don't know what you're doing. [/quote]

(these tools don't work because i removed the entire back end as well. Its the only way to stop windows from trying to repair the missing files) I'm more then aware consequences from these kind of edits are a thing. Just didn't expect this to be it. I still am not very convinced this is the issue though. The image files are missing from the steam folder all together as i stated before above. That and why would only some not work and others be fine. Not consistent with this kinda error caused by removing windows processes. None of my other programs show this behavior either.

It's strange that you have uninstalled and reinstalled the affected programs/games yet it still persists. I suspect that it's one file (database file possibly) that's storing the original information, but I don't think that's possible as any reinstall should overwrite any previous settings, and use the new settings or default settings from that new install.

Unfortunately, I've never had the issue myself so unless that thread link that I posted above can solve it, I'm not sure where else to look.

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It's strange that you have uninstalled and reinstalled the affected programs/games yet it still persists. I suspect that it's one file (database file possibly) that's storing the original information, but I don't think that's possible as any reinstall should overwrite any previous settings, and use the new settings or default settings from that new install.

Unfortunately, I've never had the issue myself so unless that thread link that I posted above can solve it, I'm not sure where else to look.

I went through that thread. it was not helpful unfortunately.