topic Help- Icon not showing in Desktop (Windows)

Help- Icon not showing

conchdiver — Tue, 07 May 2013 02:45:46 GMT

For some reason my icon for spotfiy shows up as just a blank piece of paper instead of the normal logo and I don't know how to get it back so that the spotify logo appears. I never had a problem before but I got a new computer and now no matter how many times I reinstall spotify, it keeps showing up as a blank page icon.

Re: Help- Icon not showing

Peter__ — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:26:01 GMT

Hey! Welcome to the community 🙂

What version of Windows are you using?

Peter

Re: Help- Icon not showing

space21st — Wed, 08 May 2013 03:23:28 GMT

Yeh its windows 8

Re: Help- Icon not showing

Peter__ — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:46:38 GMT

Strange, do you have a Spotify icon on your desktop?

If so, can you make sure Spotify is not pinned to the taskbar, right click on the desktop icon select properties > shortcut > change icon > and make sure it is set on "%APPDATA%\Spotify\Spotify.exe"?

Peter

Re: Help- Icon not showing

space21st — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:06:44 GMT

First off thank you so much for helping me. So I tried what you said. Unpinned the icon from the taskbar and made sure the icon pathway was the same and it was. Then when I pinned it back to the taskbar it shows the spotify logo but when I open it up, the white page opens in a second icon next to the spotify one. When I click on the spotify one again, it just brings up the other tab again.

Dan

Re: Help- Icon not showing

the_shermanator — Fri, 29 May 2015 14:19:35 GMT

I have the exact same issue. Windows 8. I have installed Spotify several times to try to fix

Re: Help- Icon not showing

dougtib — Fri, 29 May 2015 15:32:00 GMT

I had this issue as well and this is what I did to fix it:

1. Right-click on the Spotify shortcut on your desktop.

2. Click "Open FIle Location"

3. There should be an item in the list that appears labelled "Spotify". It should have the Spotify logo with it.

4. Right-click on it

5. Roll your mouse over "Send to"

6. Click on "Desktop (Create Shortcut)" in the list

7. The new shortcut should be there with the logo on it. Right-clik on it and click "Pin to Taskbar" if that's what you want as well.

Re: Help- Icon not showing

chrispi27 — Mon, 09 May 2016 19:55:40 GMT

Hi I'm using a samsung s6 edge and since few days when the music play the icon and widget are no longer showing on my lock screen as well is this normal ?

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rplauritzen — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 02:24:48 GMT

Thank you for your help...I am missing the icon for spotify on my i-pad.

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potatomissile — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 14:10:32 GMT

Absolute legend 🙂

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mcglynnliam14 — Sat, 06 May 2017 13:43:52 GMT

i have had that issue as well on windows 10 play icon and other icons won't show tried running Spotify as administrator but that doesn't work

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Standardsen — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:35:08 GMT

Hey,

I was experiencing a missing taskbar icon for Spotify
I tried the method mentioned above by dougtib, only to find the Spotify.exe in that folder was a white page.
I then realized I was in the microsoft\windows\Start Menu\Programs folder
The Spotify.exe I was directed to was a shortcut (d,oh).
Rightclick on Spotify.exe in Start Menu\Programs folder.
Select 'Open File Location'
In my case, this lead me to the correct folder location, and the Spotify.exe here had the appropriate icon.
I then Rightclicked on this Spotify.exe, and selected 'Pin to Start Menu(or Task Bar)'
Fixed

Re: Help- Icon not showing

user-removed — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:43:16 GMT

Hi, Unforetunlately i cant figure out how to fix this for windows 10, anyone got any ideas?

Re: Help- Icon not showing

moira47 — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:19:59 GMT

Worked great for me thanks...

Re: Help- Icon not showing

Andrew2303 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:04:27 GMT

All you need to do is to unpin from taskbar, open the app and then pin it to the taskbar again and it reappears.

Re: Help- Icon not showing

pmoreno784 — Tue, 15 May 2018 18:43:23 GMT

Took two seconds, thank you!