Change pinned Steam icon on taskbar?

[Legger]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the icon for Steam on the taskbar. I've realized when you open Steam, it actually opens a whole other application called the Steam Client Bootstrapper. I've pinned that and that works, but I have no way of changing that specific icon. I've made shortcuts for the Steam.exe (and tons of other applications listed within the Steam files), but none of them seem to work. I'm able to change the icon and pin it to the taskbar, but when opening it, it just opens another Steam application with the original icon. Is there anyway to fix this? I want to be able to change the Steam icon for my desktop.

[PyroLikesPizza]

引用自 zacintosh：

Pin the Steam Bootstrapper Icon to your taskbar. Then look in your Taskbar folder at "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar"
Now you should have a shortcut that you can edit the icon for.

IT IS STILL, A BLANK ICON!

[xRCS_AimScout]

nice thanks

[Star Scuffle]

What I found that works
1)Go to your Steam install folder and send to desktop
2)Right click go to properties and change icon
3)Click on shortcut to open Client Bootstrapper
4)Right click on the unchanged steam icon and further right click on Steam Client Bootstrapper
5)Click on properties and change icon like normal
6)Pin Steam Client Bootstrapper to taskbar

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57WlaQq-Cw This video works

[Sh1j1ko]

This is frustrating, I have had a custom Steam taskbar Icon for about the past 8mnths but recently it reverted to default icon and I cannot change it back to my custom icon.

I've tried everything y'all have suggested, still no luck. When I run Steam, the Icon on the taskbar is Steam.exe not the "bootstrapper", i can pin it and change the icon, but it does not show the updated icon on the taskbar even after a restart.

I tried creating a shortcut and changing that, tried changing the icon in user app data taskbar, nothing works.

Anyone else still having this issue? Anyone able to offer advice? Thx.

[Saxon]

引用自 Eileen Dover：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57WlaQq-Cw This video works

YESSSSS THANK YOU. this has been frustrating me for ages. turned out my bootstrapper shortcut was still trying to load steam from my old drive

[Solleftea]

What eventually worked for me is to
1) pin steam to the taskbar
2) Right click on steam > right click on steam > go to properties
3) Leave this window open (the properties)
4) Close steam and unpin it from taskbar
5) change the icon through the properties window left open
6) reopen steam and pin it to the taskbar

This is what worked for me, maybe it works for you

[Reaper]

引用自 Medulla Oblongata：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57WlaQq-Cw This video works

yep, this video works, thanks

[Puck you]

引用自 Solleftea：

What eventually worked for me is to
1) pin steam to the taskbar
2) Right click on steam > right click on steam > go to properties
3) Leave this window open (the properties)
4) Close steam and unpin it from taskbar
5) change the icon through the properties window left open
6) reopen steam and pin it to the taskbar

This is what worked for me, maybe it works for you

Brooooooooooooooooooooo thx

[ferragamo lucifer]

引用自 Medulla Oblongata：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57WlaQq-Cw This video works

how do i find the steam client bootstrapper???

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引用自 Medulla Oblongata：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57WlaQq-Cw This video works

Thanks. This video worked. Btw my steam is just called steam, not steam client bootstrapper.

I wanted to change steam's icon to this:

https://prnt.sc/5LkVz1cd2YiX

I made it myself in photoshop.

[LordSith]

In case people still have this issue, here is how I fixed it on windows 11 reading this topic and searching what was my case.

I recently got windows 11 and installed steam in the default location folder (c:/program files (x86)/steam ). It would give me headaches since steam asked for permission (the windows admin panel control thing) to install or start each time so I followed another advice from another thread and reinstalled steam in its own directory (c:/steam for example).

But since that moment, the taskbar pin was
* either the steam one (with logo) which would open a second "steam bootstraper client" software in the windows task bar with a weird icon,
* either was the steam bootstraper client one, but then the icon was a "standard weird" icon.

In fact in: "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar" the steam bootstrapper application had two wrong things:
- wrong direction for icon : it was looking in c:\program files (x86)\steam, which does not exist anymore.
- wrong "target" : it was looking at steam.exe in that c:\program files\steam location.

Correcting those to the new correct one fixed the issue immediatly apparently. Meaning that when I open steam (from desktop, from taskbar or from the left bottom menu next the date ): there is only one icon in the task bar (the already pinned one), and it correctly displays steam icon.

[Kroenen]

引用自 zacintosh：

Pin the Steam Bootstrapper Icon to your taskbar. Then look in your Taskbar folder at "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar"
Now you should have a shortcut that you can edit the icon for.

Thank you Zacintosh for this information. Navigating to the "[Drive letter]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar" directory I was able to see a few steam items in there for both the normal steam.exe and the steam client bootstrapper. I was able to restore my steam icon and have only one steam icon pinned to the task bar again by deleting all steam items in the directory mentioned above and relaunching steam through the windows menu. The steam application launched with it's icon again and the icon remained when I pinned it back to the taskbar. Hope this helps.