Why do my icons keep doing this?

[Coolio]

The world icons are Steam shortcuts, and the white boxes are .exe files.

So, why do they keep changing to this type of icon? Not all of them do this.

[Ad Bot]

[bµbbler]

I never understood this either
I'd like to know too.

[fred da kiko]

because that's the default.

[Night Fox]

serious solution: stop putting things in your desktop
I use my start menu for almost everything

[Coolio]

serious solution: stop putting things in your desktop
I use my start menu for almost everything

It's a folder, pinned to my start menu. My desktop has no icons.

[Night Fox]

It's a folder, pinned to my start menu. My desktop has no icons.

then idk
I've never encountered this problem, even when I used XP

[carolcat]

i only have 1 icon that does this. most of my icons just turn into white sheets of paper:

[Night Fox]

has the file for the icon been moved or anything?

[carolcat]

has the file for the icon been moved or anything?

i only move mine into their respective areas of the desktop (i.e rows along the top for games, rows on the left for utilities, etc)

[Night Fox]

I mean the file for the icon
like
the picture that it shows
the .ico thing

[Ipquarx]

I mean the file for the icon
like
the picture that it shows
the .ico thing

It doesn't work like that, the icon "file" is embedded in the executable.

[dorkdotdan]

This happened to google talk and blockland for me.

[Coolio]

How do I fix this?

[dorkdotdan]

How do I fix this?

>Right Click
>Properties
>Change Icon
>Select Icon
>???
>Profit

[Coolio]

>Right Click
>Properties
>Change Icon
>Select Icon
>???
>Profit

Now what should I do for the Steam icons?