Steam pinned sub-menu missing in Start Menu after reinstall?

[Qev]

Time was, Steam was pinned in my Start Menu, and had a pop-out side menu that listed all the installed and recent games (similar to what you got right-clicking the Steam tray icon). One HD crash and Windows reinstall later, I've done a fresh reinstall of Steam, and that pinned Steam submenu never got created? How does one go about recreating that? (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit)

[Qev]

Apparently this is called a "jump list" in Windows. XD

[noob_Lurker]

That's part of Windows, and a reinstall would clear whatever you had pinned, for any app...

To add games there, just open them up to have them show as recent, then right click and select the "pin" option.

However, if you have too many non-games entries in there (which you can control via Settings - Interface - Taskbar Preferences), there might not be enough space for games. On win7 and 8 you could increase the jump list size via Start Menu customization, but for win10 i hear you need to edit the Registry.

Furthermore, the recent update of the Steam Client seems to have added a stupid restriction such that regardless of my Jump List size of 25 it will still only record 5 games in its list... so now my list is so much shorter than what i have become used to. :(

[Qev]

Originally posted by noob_Lurker:

That's part of Windows, and a reinstall would clear whatever you had pinned, for any app...

To add games there, just open them up to have them show as recent, then right click and select the "pin" option.

That's the weird thing, If I pin Steam to the taskbar (or the Steam app is open), right-clicking the taskbar icon brings up its jump list as expected. If I pin Steam to the Start Menu, however, that never shows a jump list.

I'd forgotten about this thread. XD I contacted Steam support, it's actually a known issue I guess, but no ETA on a fix. Ah well. :)

[noob_Lurker]

Originally posted by Qev:

That's the weird thing, If I pin Steam to the taskbar (or the Steam app is open), right-clicking the taskbar icon brings up its jump list as expected. If I pin Steam to the Start Menu, however, that never shows a jump list.

That's quite unexpected, considering it seems to work fine in my Win7...

The odd thing is that the two jump lists i can access right now have different contents, and different lengths too. Maybe they're tied to a specific version of the Steam client, and any update would de-sync them? ;-??

Huh, indeed, when i right-click on the start menu entry and go to properties, it shows it's a shortcut at AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs, while the taskbar one is directly for the Steam.exe from Program Files (x86)\Steam... Maybe try to manually create a second shortcut in that Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder, and see if THAT gets a jump list? ;-)

[Qev]

Originally posted by noob_Lurker:

Maybe try to manually create a second shortcut in that Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder, and see if THAT gets a jump list? ;-)

No love, sadly. Just appears as a standard shortcut, no jump list. I wonder if my having installed Steam outside of the Program Files folders has something to do with it?