Why did Steam pin itself to my taskbar?

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Quint the Alligator Snapper Apr 8, 2020 @ 3:54pm

It was not pinned to my taskbar before my Steam client installed its latest update (presumably the one from March 26).

I started it up today; it told me there was an update. It updated and restarted, and then suddenly Steam is pinned to my taskbar.

Obviously, it's trivially easy to remove Steam from my taskbar, but I want to know whether this was intentional. I would also like to ask that it not do this in the future.

Last edited by Quint the Alligator Snapper; Apr 8, 2020 @ 3:55pm

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wuddih Apr 8, 2020 @ 4:37pm

Steam does and did not do that.

Zekiran Apr 8, 2020 @ 5:02pm

Having always had mine pinned by choice, I do not know whether that was a 'thing' that happened.

Did you go into the settings area to see whether it did change? It obviously didn't toggle on-to-off, I can say that.

Snapjak Apr 8, 2020 @ 5:13pm

It would be fairly easy to accidentally right-click on Steam in the bar then click on pin, it's not outside the realm of possibility.

Amon Apr 8, 2020 @ 5:19pm

Or dragging the steam app around when positioning, or resizing(e.g snapping), then accidentally getting it on the task bar, thereby pinning it.

Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Apr 8, 2020 @ 5:33pm

Either right click and pin it, or drag it on there.

Far as I know, it nevers pin itself to there.

Quint the Alligator Snapper Apr 8, 2020 @ 5:35pm

Originally posted by Snapjak:
It would be fairly easy to accidentally right-click on Steam in the bar then click on pin, it's not outside the realm of possibility.

I have Classic Shell so that I don't bring up that context menu on right-click.

Not to mention that the Steam client was not in the taskbar when it updated, since at that time the Steam client window was closed.

For now I guess this may just remain an unsolved mystery.

Last edited by Quint the Alligator Snapper; Apr 8, 2020 @ 6:13pm

Zekiran Apr 8, 2020 @ 7:01pm

Do you have it set to launch on startup? Maybe make sure that it's not selected to pin to taskbar, and then relaunch with the 'on startup' changed and see what it does? Obviously, requires more restarts than you might want to do, but it IS a curious thing to happen.

Pro_rocha Apr 8, 2020 @ 7:01pm

Quint the Alligator Snapper Apr 8, 2020 @ 7:10pm

Originally posted by Zekiran:
Do you have it set to launch on startup? Maybe make sure that it's not selected to pin to taskbar, and then relaunch with the 'on startup' changed and see what it does? Obviously, requires more restarts than you might want to do, but it IS a curious thing to happen.

It's not set to launch on startup.

Zekiran Apr 8, 2020 @ 7:18pm

Right but I mean, troubleshooting requires more variables and testing.

:) I mean, you obviously don't HAVE to? It might just be some weird bug. Y'just got me curious :D

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Quint the Alligator Snapper Apr 8, 2020 @ 7:58pm

Originally posted by Zekiran:
Right but I mean, troubleshooting requires more variables and testing.

:) I mean, you obviously don't HAVE to? It might just be some weird bug. Y'just got me curious :D

Yeah, I know, but I'm not about to restart my system because I'm in the middle of stuff.

Ideally, I'd revert the Steam version and have it update again, for proper replication. But I don't think I can do that.

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Zekiran Apr 8, 2020 @ 9:23pm

Well you could purposefully rename or remove some vital files, and it'd have to.

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Crazy Tiger Apr 8, 2020 @ 11:47pm

If you were on Win 10 I'd say a Windows issue. Some coworkers were having the issue that after their work computer updated, it had some programs pinned to the taskbar that weren't there. They unpinned it and oddly enough after a restart they were pinned back. Took our IT guy to roll back an optional update to Windows and rerunning it to solve that one.

But you're on Win 7, right Quint?

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