How to get list of installed games as the default library view?

[thegrommit]

Not ads for other games. Not a view of my entire library. Just a simple list of installed games by default. Why isn't this available any more? The last thing I want to see every time is that abomination of a home screen.

And while a "Dynamic Collection" can be created for this, it doesn't seem possible to set that as the default view?

[Osiris]

Click the little arrow at the top of the list on the left sidebar where it says "Games" and you can select only installed games.

[thegrommit]

Originally posted by Osiris:

Click the little arrow at the top of the list on the left sidebar where it says "Games" and you can select only installed games.

That's not the same as the old "Installed" view which *only* listed installed games. Instead, you still have to put up with the other nonsense on the home screen.

I'd be OK if the home screen could be customised to remove the "shelves" of stuff I don't want, or set so that a chosen "dynamic collection" was the default, but doesn't seem possible.

[Darth Alpharius]

Make a Collection/'s or create a Shelf (remove the others) and click all games.

[artiksilver]

Next to the selection box with the 'Games', 'Video' and 'Tools' selection, there are 2 small icons. The small arrow makes it only display games that are installed or available to stream from another machine.

[Darth Alpharius]

Originally posted by artiksilver:

Next to the selection box with the 'Games', 'Video' and 'Tools' selection, there are 2 small icons. The small arrow makes it only display games that are installed or available to stream from another machine.

Think he means the Home Page

[thegrommit]

Originally posted by Darth Alpharius:

Make a Collection/'s or create a Shelf (remove the others) and click all games.

As far as I can tell, you can't remove all the shelves? You can remove specific updates, or reduce the frequency of updates for particular games, but the "what's new" shelf can't be permanently disabled.

Originally posted by artiksilver:

Next to the selection box with the 'Games', 'Video' and 'Tools' selection, there are 2 small icons. The small arrow makes it only display games that are installed or available to stream from another machine.

The problem is this doesn't remove all the other stuff on the home page.

All I want is the return of the old "Installed" view - a list of installed games and *nothing* else.

[SeriousCCIE]

Try clicking around the top of the game title list until you get the option of "ready to play games" That means "installed" if you have just one system and don't use the computer as a client for some other computer of yours to receive 'streaming' from.

I dont know what htey call the icons, it seems there's no standard for that sort of thing anymore, but theres one that looks like a "play" button that doesnt play anything, and instead represents a list of installed or available titles immediately available for usage. Then it'll show them in a list.

[Yasahi]

Originally posted by thegrommit:

The problem is this doesn't remove all the other stuff on the home page.

All I want is the return of the old "Installed" view - a list of installed games and *nothing* else.

Small Mode would do that. You can access it by typing steam://open/minigameslist in the address bar of your web browser or the Run prompt or by making a shortcut or a .BAT etc.

[Stormer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjN6-e3nlPE
This will give you the old ui back and block steam from unpacking the new one

[Yasahi]

Originally posted by Stormer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjN6-e3nlPE
This will give you the old ui back and block steam from unpacking the new one

Until they force Steam to update or it won't run.

[Bot_Bashing_Bonehead]

Originally posted by SeriousCCIE:

Try clicking around the top of the game title list until you get the option of "ready to play games" That means "installed" if you have just one system and don't use the computer as a client for some other computer of yours to receive 'streaming' from.

I dont know what htey call the icons, it seems there's no standard for that sort of thing anymore, but theres one that looks like a "play" button that doesnt play anything, and instead represents a list of installed or available titles immediately available for usage. Then it'll show them in a list.

Thank you! Now, how do I make Steam turn off and on again so I get the old Library back?

[Bigfeet]

Simply click this main screen away (top right X) and start your games from the steam icon in the hidden tray of ur windows taskbar of al yr programs running. Rightclick on steam icon and there is your installed gameslist, friendlist etc. If you want back in this mess, just click that same icon twice or choose one of the other link options mentioned when you rightclick.

[Satoru]

There’s a “play” button in the left side that will filter your collections via locally installed

[thegrommit]

Originally posted by Yasahi:

Small Mode would do that. You can access it by typing steam://open/minigameslist in the address bar of your web browser or the Run prompt or by making a shortcut or a .BAT etc.

Tried creating a BAT file, didn't do anything when I ran it.

Originally posted by Bigfeet:

Simply click this main screen away (top right X) and start your games from the steam icon in the hidden tray of ur windows taskbar of al yr programs running. Rightclick on steam icon and there is your installed gameslist, friendlist etc. If you want back in this mess, just click that same icon twice or choose one of the other link options mentioned when you rightclick.

Nope. Right-click on the steam icon only shows the last five games I played - including one that isn't even installed.

Originally posted by Satoru:

There’s a “play” button in the left side that will filter your collections via locally installed

I appreciate the intent, but you'll note from the earlier comments that isn't what I'm looking for as it still shows "what's new" and other stuff I don't want.

[Yasahi]

Originally posted by thegrommit:

Originally posted by Yasahi:

Small Mode would do that. You can access it by typing steam://open/minigameslist in the address bar of your web browser or the Run prompt or by making a shortcut or a .BAT etc.

Tried creating a BAT file, didn't do anything when I ran it.

So you opened Notepad or a similar program and wrote the following lines:

@ECHO OFF
start steam://open/minigameslist

and then saved it as a .bat?