Jump list (right-click taskbar icon) stuck at 5 games, regardless of jump list size or non-game content

[WarMom]

My jump list on steam's taskbar icon used to display 10 games, after I changed the taskbar preferences to get rid of all the default options (store, library etc).

Earlier in the month, it started displaying the most recent five games instead. It's not that the list will only display 5 items - it will only display 5 games. I can turn on 6 of the client options (eg store, library, community, exit steam, steamvr, etc) before my games start disappearing. So the jump list is capable of showing 10 items like it always has been, but only 5 games now.

Earlier today I started tinkering with jump list sizes in regedit and I can now display 18-item jumplists just fine on windows media player and explorer. Steam will also display up to 18 items, so I can have up to 13 client options in the taskbar; so this isn't a jump list size issue in general, this is something specific to Steam for the last month or so.

Has anyone else experienced this, any fixes?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It was supposed to be patched in the beta...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements/detail/3417567691615478215

Soon to the stable branch after the new year.

[Seraphita]

Apparently checking my own, yes. Only 5 games maximum on my side. Nothing more shows.

[WarMom]

I changed to the beta branch earlier today and nope, I'm still getting the same issue I'm afraid.

[wuddih]

tray icon of Steam was and is always limited to the last 5 recent games.

jumplists is a windows limitation. at some point in development of win10 it was limited to 10 entries, then 12, i have not bothered checking further. right now it seems 12. dividers(the line) count as an entry. steam uses 2.

[WarMom]

I know the tray icon is 5 and only ever 5, but I never use that; I'm talking specifically about the taskbar jumplist. Until sometime in December, the Steam taskbar jumplist could display up to 10 entries, but now it will only show at most 5 games regardless of how many entries it's showing - whether that's 1, 5, 10, or 18 through registry editing.

[Touch Me I'm Sick]

/BUMP

Still an issue - jumplist is limited to 5 games no matter what jumplistitems _maxiumum is set to in the registry. I can add more icons to the jumplist through the settings (library/community etc.) but it refuses to add more recent games, pinned or unpinned. It's been a year now that it has been busted, a little frustrating as it's the fastest way to see & launch recently played games and doesn't require pulling up the UI and faffing about in the library.

FWIW I have the same issue with MS Office 365, it doesn't seem to want to remember more than 10 files, while Office 2016 will happily display the 40 most recent files.

[WarMom]

Originally posted by Touch Me I'm Sick:

/BUMP

Still an issue - jumplist is limited to 5 games no matter what jumplistitems _maxiumum is set to in the registry. I can add more icons to the jumplist through the settings (library/community etc.) but it refuses to add more recent games, pinned or unpinned. It's been a year now that it has been busted, a little frustrating as it's the fastest way to see & launch recently played games and doesn't require pulling up the UI and faffing about in the library.

FWIW I have the same issue with MS Office 365, it doesn't seem to want to remember more than 10 files, while Office 2016 will happily display the 40 most recent files.

It's not a great solution as far as Steam is concerned, but I did find 'a' solution to this problem - I installed a free program called Playnite which acts as a game library manager / launcher, so I can play all my stuff from Steam, Blizzard, Emulators, Origin, et cetera all from one launcher. It also has the old functionality Steam had whereby it displays the last 10 launched games in the right click taskbar menu. If memory serves, the dev has a support ticket on github up for making that number of displayed titles customisable to show even more.

It's not a perfect solution, but I haven't regretted it one bit, I think it's a great program, especially as someone who plays games from a bunch of storefronts.