Steam taskbar icon background permanently yellow or green

[PlasmaLink]

For the past ~2 months, the background around the steam icon on my taskbar has been solid yellow. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/gNfd5v8.png

Whenever I start downloading something on it, it goes back to its regular green progress bar form, filling up as the game downloads.

Sometimes it ends up stuck at full green. Other times, it just goes back to a solid yellow.

Screenshot of my downloads tab: http://i.imgur.com/QtQK16Z.png

I don't have anything queued up, and it's been stuck like this across months of rebooting and exiting/reopening steam.

OS is Windows 7.

[PlasmaLink]

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

[*fu* Dr.n00b]

My button is a little bit yellow, (like the 1st milimetre in) I only allow downloads past midnight maybe you have a similar config setup somewhere.

[*fu* Dr.n00b]

I also have Skullgirls paused (in the library) - as that seemed to update every freaking day.

(Most likely answer)

[PooLs2MehaNNN;🍍✞ KB]

Originally posted by PlasmaLink:

For the past ~2 months, the background around the steam icon on my taskbar has been solid yellow. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/gNfd5v8.png

Whenever I start downloading something on it, it goes back to its regular green progress bar form, filling up as the game downloads.

Sometimes it ends up stuck at full green. Other times, it just goes back to a solid yellow.

Screenshot of my downloads tab: http://i.imgur.com/QtQK16Z.png

I don't have anything queued up, and it's been stuck like this across months of rebooting and exiting/reopening steam.

OS is Windows 7.

[Yorith]

Can you go to big picture mode and look if a update is scheduled?

I had the same problem with a game that had been removed from steam but they left a bugged patch behind.

5 days was already extremely annoying how could you deal with it for 2 months?

[PlasmaLink]

Originally posted by Ricyn:

Can you go to big picture mode and look if a update is scheduled?

I had the same problem with a game that had been removed from steam but they left a bugged patch behind.

5 days was already extremely annoying how could you deal with it for 2 months?

Your big picture suggestion worked! It turns out there were 2 things stuck in limbo or whatever, possibly due to me running out of disk space at some point or due to both these games being uninstalled. http://i.imgur.com/xRgsXgR.png

I tried to install both of them, but they both went back down to being paused. However, my taskbar icon doesn't have the yellow tint to it anymore, at least for now. Hopefully it doesn't return after I restart steam/reboot. Thank you again for this.

[Yorith]

You are welcome at least you know now which games are causing the problems but my guess is they will come back until that list is empty.

It might be your anti-virus that is blocking some files (false positive) or the directory if it is the default (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/) that is what I found on a quick search for the disk write error.

[teed]

I can confirm that a solution can be found when going into Big Picture mode.

I also had a partially yellow Steam task bar button. I found out that it went away when clicking on Dota 2 in the games library. So naturally I thought Dota 2 was the issue. Neither uninstalling, re-installing and registry purging of that game nor re-installing Steam completely didn't help though.

Just for kicks I went to Big Picture and sure enough there was a driver download pending. It didn't have anything to do with Dota 2 (at least from what I could tell) and it also didn't appear outside of Big Picture in my downloads list. But once I finished that download (~160 MB), my task bar icon is now normal and I don't have to click on Dota 2 every time I start Steam anymore. Yay!

[fightingfyres]

This also worked for me! THANK YOU OMG

[Stian McCawk]

Confirmed, enter big picture mode, top right corner then click the power button in the mode to exit. Its now fixed.

[Crashed]

Usually when you have a yellow taskbar icon it means you have paused downloads, and green usually means downloads or updates in progress.
Sometimes at the end of a download there will be an extended period while Steam is in an Updating status, as it writes the downloaded assets to the disk.

I do not believe Windows 10 changed the API for taskbar progress to a point where it would be buggy on Windows 7, so the OS version might not even be relevant.