Steam game shortcuts not working from the desktop

[jnelsoninjax]

All of my installed steam games have quit working via the shortcut from the desktop. They all show (game name).url with the steam icon as opposed to the game icon. I just uninstalled steam completely and reinstalled it, and it is still doing the same thing it was before. Does anyone know how to correct this issue?

[Louisifer]

Have you tried deleting the shortcuts and recreating them from right clicking a game in the library?

[Nick H. Supervisor]

.url? That's odd, my shortcuts don't do that. How are you creating the shortcuts?

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

I just go directly to Steam and chose the game from the list I want to play. I do not use game shortcuts.

[Louisifer]

4 minutes ago, Nick H. said:

.url? That's odd, my shortcuts don't do that. How are you creating the shortcuts?

All Steam shortcuts are URL's most of us probably just have extensions hidden, this is a link to Fallout 4 "steam://rungameid/377160" you can launch your games from a browser if you really wanted too.  

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Have you tried recreating them?  Right clicking on the game in Steam and selecting "Create Desktop Shortcut" ?

 

What does the URL say in the shortcut ... should be something like ....

steam://rungameid/205100

 

Any error message when you attempt to launch the game via the desktop shortcut?

 

Also, maybe this ?

 

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2087-MZES-9065

[jnelsoninjax]

9 minutes ago, Louisifer said:

Have you tried deleting the shortcuts and recreating them from right clicking a game in the library?

Yes, forgot to mention that

9 minutes ago, Nick H. said:

.url? That's odd, my shortcuts don't do that. How are you creating the shortcuts?

That is how steam creates the shortcut. I'm beginning to think that my file type associations are screwed up because I have had to restore file association with zip, rar and images 

[jnelsoninjax]

3 minutes ago, jjkusaf said:

Have you tried recreating them?  Right clicking on the game in Steam and selecting "Create Desktop Shortcut" ?

 

What does the URL say in the shortcut ... should be something like ....

steam://rungameid/205100

 

Any error message when you attempt to launch the game via the desktop shortcut?

When I double click the shortcut it opens steam, not the game, this is what the properties look like:

 

[Doli]

10 minutes ago, jnelsoninjax said:

When I double click the shortcut it opens steam, not the game, this is what the properties look like:

 

Strange there should be a "Web Document" tab that shows the "steam://....." protocol

[Doli]

See if this helps

 

Steam is not a registered protocol

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2087-MZES-9065&l=english

[Louisifer]

Mine doesn't say anything about opening with "Steam Client Bootstrap" maybe restore .url to default and see what "steam://" is set too?

[Jim K Global Moderator]

hmmm...dunno why you're missing the "Web Document" tab.  If the link Doli posted didn't work...

 

You could always go to your SteamLibrary\steamapps\common folder ... find the games executable and create a shortcut.  That will launch Steam (if not already launched) and the game.

 

 

[exotoxic]

1 hour ago, Louisifer said:

most of us probably just have extensions hidden

 

Shortcuts don't show extensions even with them enabled.

[jnelsoninjax]

50 minutes ago, jjkusaf said:

hmmm...dunno why you're missing the "Web Document" tab.  If the link Doli posted didn't work...

 

You could always go to your SteamLibrary\steamapps\common folder ... find the games executable and create a shortcut.  That will launch Steam (if not already launched) and the game.

That's what I ended up doing, despite running the repair on steam, and doing the registry modifications, it still does not want to work with the shortcuts created by steam.