Recent games not working

[Alegost]

Title.
Steam hasn't updated my recent game list since the last client update.
Any idea?

Thanks for the answer(s).

[Robert]

The Giving One の投稿を引用：

What about in your library in Steam, not the Start menu ?

Is your library list in Steam correct and up to date ?

My steam library is up to date, as is the list on the icon in the tray
It's just the start menu that is giving grief
I have just cleared steam cache and tried pinning games to the list (as mentioned in other discussions)
But that has not worked

[Robert]

᚜ ᐯ₳℟ ᚛ ツ の投稿を引用：

Well, if you guys just list the version of windows you're using + beta version of steam or not, we can find this out pretty quick. It doesn't happen for me on windows 7 with regular steam version.

I am using regular Steam, no beta
My computer runs on Win 7
Its only been since one of the steam patches that this problem has arisen
Never encountered anything like it before

[The Giving One]

If Windows cannot see the .exe files for Steam games, then yes, the Start Menu list will be incomplete. And there can be several possible reasons why this could happen where Steam is not even the issue.

What is the antivirus program that anyone here might be using and is there any other security software installed on any computers in question also ?

As well as the good ᚜ ᐯ₳℟ ᚛ ツ questions above previously, please.

[ᴠᴀʀ]

Try joining beta if you haven't already. If it's a steam problem, the fix will arrive there first.
If it's windows causing it, you'll get the update forced anyway.

Just a matter of time.

really weird. I don't have any of these issues tbh.

[The Giving One]

Robert の投稿を引用：

My steam library is up to date, as is the list on the icon in the tray

Then it sounds more like a Windows problem, rather than a Steam problem. If the Steam library is fine, and the Windows Start menu is not, it's pretty logical to think that Windows is the problem, not Steam.

EDIT....Or, some third party software installed on that Windows, causing the problem.

[ᴠᴀʀ]

Robert の投稿を引用：

I have just cleared steam cache

If you cleared the steam cache to make the recent list work in windows.. That's not how it works. With the steam clear cache you clear steam's own cache, not in windows. So if your recent list is still there in windows (unchanged) , you should realise you did something wrong, right? The cache clear needs to be done manually within windows or with a tool like ccleaner. (like i described in the thread)

If you did that properly, the 'recent' list should actually be gone now in windows.

[The Giving One]

CCleaner has a monitoring mode section that directly conflicts with Steam, and causes issues.

If anyone is using CCleaner, disable it from startup, disable all the monitoring settings in CCleaner, or totally uninstall it temporarily and then reboot.

[i.am.mikita]

The Giving One の投稿を引用：

Assuming those recently posting here have the same exact issue described in the OP above, what exactly happens when the games fail to update ?

Details on what you see happening might help. Games not updating themselves can be a simple fix like changing download regions maybe. Or, there might be a more complex issue to look for, that causes this problem.

Boot the computer into safe mode with networking. This is a simple test and narrows down the possibilities. There, log into Steam and try to update a game or "verify the game files".

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335

Describe what happens next, in detail. Again, safe mode "with networking".

This isnt the issue... Please refer to next post to understand the issue

[i.am.mikita]

To descibe the issue more clearly for those who want to know what the problem is.

1. (ISSUE) The most recently played games in the start menu is not updating in the start menu only.
2. This all started at the same time for all three of us, after a steam update (This makes me think it is directly associated with STEAM)
3. The fact that very few people have this issue makes me thinks it is a bug that is directly associated with somthing the few of us are doing that most people are not.
4. The recent games played will update on the task bar.
5. I did look at the other person issue and unpinning didnt fix.


Spec:
OS= 10
I use classic shell but niether of the other dont
I do not use ccleaner
I did not dump cache

Any suggestion I will do

[The Giving One]

i.am.mikita の投稿を引用：

This isnt the issue... Please refer to next post to understand the issue

Yea, my apologies. I misunderstood upon my first post here, as to what was the exact issue, but later I was corrected and understood now. Thanks.

But one thing you said got my attention and I think that is important to keep in mind with this issue :

i.am.mikita の投稿を引用：

3. The fact that very few people have this issue makes me thinks it is a bug that is directly associated with somthing the few of us are doing that most people are not.

Or, the same third party software between those with the issue, or missing Windows update perhaps, or other common ground with those having this problem.

If the Steam library is fine and shows no missing games from the library list, I don't see how it could be a Steam problem. Even when a new issue presents itself directly after something happens (Steam update), it might seem logical, but that does not necessarily mean that issue (Steam update) was the cause of the problem. It might have just presented itself at that same moment, after that Steam update.

Seems like a Windows or third party software problem to me, maybe. I could be wrong, but if only the Windows Start menu is missing games from the list, that would seem more like the problem is not with Steam, but somewhere else.

Has anyone tried troubleshooting this problem while booted into safe mode with networking ?

Windows fully up to date ? I mean run Windows Update anyway, even if you think it is ?

What about hidden folders in Windows ? Is everyone sure all folders and files are set to "visible" in Windows ?

[Stryke66]

It feels to me that something changed within Steam and the program is no longer passing the relevant information to the spot that the Windows Start Menu is looking for it.

I've launched games by right clicking on the Steam Icon in my Windows Start Menu for years in the same way I've launched a recent Word or Excel document but it appears that chapter is over in my life. The games aren't broken and neither is Windows so far as I can tell, it's just that something changed.

Could be that tons of folks out there used to use this method to launch games, found out it wasn't working and just said "Huh."

It may only be a few of us that bothered to ask about it rather than the idea that it is only happening to six people.

I decided to use Pin More, an app from the Windows store (which doesn't get the correct info to update either by the way but looks cool) and moved on.

Thanks to those who tried to help and to the others who showed me I wasn't alone.

Cheers!

[GuRu Asaki]

Does this help at all?

1.) Do you have Focus Assist Enabled?
2.) Do you have Recently Added Enabled?
3.) Show Most Used Apps in Start Menu Enabled?
4.) Show most recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start Or the Taskbar Enabled?

You may be getting one of these Settings mixed up with another Setting... o_@

Also, make sure Focus Assist is Disabled durring the time you are
checking... I dunno if Focus Assist being Enabled can prevent this,
but Disabling it wouldn't hurt...

To Disable Focus Assist, just go to Action Center, & click the icon till
it turns off, not being Orange anymore, =D


If non of that works, then you can try messing around with your Settings / Notifications,
I am not sure, but Disabling some of these settings, made portions of my PC,
sorta function weirdly, o_@

But of course, i'm hoping it's not my Router that is acting up,
that it's just my Windows Notifications, o_@

I'm on Windows 10 Pro Developer Mode, so I dunno if you have same
or different settings then I do, though, o_@

[The Giving One]

Stryke66 の投稿を引用：

It feels to me that something changed within Steam and the program is no longer passing the relevant information to the spot that the Windows Start Menu is looking for it.

I don't think this is how that works. Windows detects the .exe files and that Start Menu shows them, as per that detection. Or, the files/games are there but simply "hidden". I don't have Windows 10 so maybe I am wrong here, though.

As the user above very helpfully posted, check your "icon and notification" settings in Windows, and other things that were mentioned. Still seems like a Windows issue to me, or something else not related directly to Steam.

[Stryke66]

GuRu Asaki の投稿を引用：

Does this help at all?

1.) Do you have Focus Assist Enabled?
2.) Do you have Recently Added Enabled?
3.) Show Most Used Apps in Start Menu Enabled?
4.) Show most recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start Or the Taskbar Enabled?




This sounds closer to what is happening for me. All of those options are enabled. The Jump List or Recent Files list is not being populated for Steam on the Start Menu. For other programs like Acrobat or Word it works fine. Oddly, the Jump List for Steam on the taskbar is functioning as expected. Bizarre.

[frosty840]

TL;DR: Selecting "Unpin from taskbar" immediately cleared this issue up for me.


I was having this problem:
1) Right-click Steam system tray icon. Recently played games was correct, and displays in a Steam-themed taskbar menu.
2) Right-click Steam taskbar icon. Recently played games list was weeks if not months out of date.

As suggested in the other thread, I had Steam pinned to my taskbar; i.e. the Steam icon appeared in my system tray all the time, and also on my taskbar all the time. If I closed Steam completely by exiting via the "Exit" menu option on the system tray icon, I still had the taskbar launch icon present.

I closed the Steam client so it was only open in the system tray, right clicked on the taskbar icon and selected to unpin the Steam icon from the taskbar, which made it vanish. I then reopened the Steam client from the system tray, and my recent games list was immediately updated.
I have now re-pinned to the taskbar, and the recent games list is still up to date.
I just launched a game and the game has inserted itself back to the top of the list.

My guess is that after an update the pinned recent games list was still associated with an older version of the steam client so when Steam sent update messages to the recent list, Windows didn't recognise it should be updating that list, because Windows thought the messages were coming from a different piece of software.
Unpinning Steam probably deleted the old record and right-clicking it again brought up the recent list for the "real" Steam client instead of the old, patched and deleted version.

Funnily enough, we had the exact same problem at work this week where a user had been given two login records for a piece of software. He was logging into the first login, but all of his work was being assigned to the second login, so he was never being told he had anything to do. We deleted one of his records and the next time he logged in, he was logged into the second account and all his work appeared as normal.