Pinning Steam games to taskbar?

[SilentReaprr]

I cant seem to pin Steam games to my taskbar. I pinned my most used programs and games to my taskbar so I could hide the desktop icons and only have the background wallpaper showing. I can do this for Origin games but why not Steam games? Btw im running Windows 10 Pro 64bit.

[zippydsmlee]

Автор сообщения: ricardoglez22

Автор сообщения: zippydsmlee

https://www.tempestblog.com/2015/09/15/how-to-pin-a-steam-game-to-the-start-menu-in-windows-10-without-special-software/

I found that way to be the easiest, just repllce the number ID for the game with the one you want, then change the icon by finding the games exe and slecting it.

Oddly enough these days with the newer win10 updates you can toss the url link steam shortcut of games into a single taskbar icon on the taskbard and when you right click it you can choose from the games you droped into the taskbar.

I mean, it works. But again, this causes the game to create another icon in the taskbar when launching it, ignoring the one created.

Did you use the

%windir%\explorer.exe steam://rungameid/gameid

in a new shortcut? It links to the explorer.exe that then links to steam to run the game, it creates its own single icon for that game, if you just use the

steam://rungameid/gameid

it creates a web url shortcut and when you drag it to the taskbar it creates a pin to the steam exe in a new steam icon.

Optionally you can create a folder in taskbar from a folder of shortcuts on your hard drive, and click on the folder to bring up a drop down menu to click on a game and run it.

[mluthanen]

Автор сообщения: Danlboon

Just run the game, tab out, right click the icon on the taskbar and click "pin to taskbar"

You can also hit the Start key on your keyboard in-game to show the Start Menu/Taskbar. Lots of games will ignore this and just keep running and tapping the Start key again will hide the SM/TB again. Useful for doing a quick internet search and/or looking at the clock, etc without the backbreaking work of hitting two buttons to leave the game. (:

[Mert]

Автор сообщения: zippydsmlee

Автор сообщения: ricardoglez22

I mean, it works. But again, this causes the game to create another icon in the taskbar when launching it, ignoring the one created.

Did you use the

%windir%\explorer.exe steam://rungameid/gameid

in a new shortcut? It links to the explorer.exe that then links to steam to run the game, it creates its own single icon for that game, if you just use the

steam://rungameid/gameid

it creates a web url shortcut and when you drag it to the taskbar it creates a pin to the steam exe in a new steam icon.

Optionally you can create a folder in taskbar from a folder of shortcuts on your hard drive, and click on the folder to bring up a drop down menu to click on a game and run it.

You don't understand fam, this method creates a NEW Icon for the game/software in the Taskbar. What we are trying to get is that NO NEW ICON is created in the Taskbar, meaning that once you click the shortcut in the Taskbar, the game/software opens in THAT slot, instead of creating a new slot, taking up more space on the Taskbar.

[zippydsmlee]

Автор сообщения: Mertica

Автор сообщения: zippydsmlee

Did you use the

%windir%\explorer.exe steam://rungameid/gameid

in a new shortcut? It links to the explorer.exe that then links to steam to run the game, it creates its own single icon for that game, if you just use the

steam://rungameid/gameid

it creates a web url shortcut and when you drag it to the taskbar it creates a pin to the steam exe in a new steam icon.

Optionally you can create a folder in taskbar from a folder of shortcuts on your hard drive, and click on the folder to bring up a drop down menu to click on a game and run it.

You don't understand fam, this method creates a NEW Icon for the game/software in the Taskbar. What we are trying to get is that NO NEW ICON is created in the Taskbar, meaning that once you click the shortcut in the Taskbar, the game/software opens in THAT slot, instead of creating a new slot, taking up more space on the Taskbar.

For the new icon issue(run game, games makes new icon in taskbar), this is due to the game running from 2 separate exe or processes which makes a new icon appear because “reasons”
and the reasons are DRM based, its how they made it due to them not making many things very intuitive for the PC which means extra steps to run a thing, there is not much you can do except run the game from steam and not have a taskbar link to the game or just have the game shortcut toolbar and run stuff from it, you can give the toolbar name a letter or 3 like G or GST,ect its small out of the way and gives you 2 click access to many things(I wish Linux was as easy to make shortcuts in).


As for the shortcut problems of them not working

Steam dose not really use lnk/link shortcuts anymore, some games don’t have the funky DRM most games do so for the most part you can’t use lnk/shortcuts. The shortcut link system steam supports is URL/.url IE what Microsoft calls a web shortcut. The web shortcut on the taskbar basically adds a new steam icon with the link to the game, you can also right click on the steam icon and see the recent games list which does not help everyone.

I love simple links which MS has basically broken on the taskbar, one of the few ways I found around it for steam games is make a folder for steam game shortcuts, put the web url shortcuts in it, make a new toolbar and via a drop down menu you can select from any game in the folder to run from the taskbar.
You can also go through a lot more steps to make a shortcut file to a batch file then link the icon of the game to the shortcut file.


So you have 3 choices if you do not want to make a new file or toolbar, use the url link on the desktop or use the link by right clicking steam from the taskbar or open and use steam. This is how they made it you can call it a bug or feature does not matter there’s no easy way getting around it since its tied to the DRM system in steam. And even then some games like Skyrim will only launch from the games launcher and not the exe itself, which is annoying enough that I just crack it so I can run the exe….

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[Reanu Keeves]

Create a shortcut for the game in question. Select that shortcut when putting it on Taskbar. Done

[Jakub Rzepa]

Hey, i know it's not thematicall but i need help. How can i report defect in game on steam?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Pinning games is only for the taskbar icon and not the system tray icon which is what this thread from 2015 is talking about.

[Mert]

Автор сообщения: cSg|mc-Hotsauce

Pinning games is only for the taskbar icon and not the system tray icon which is what this thread from 2015 is talking about.

:qr:

Um, who mentioned the Tray in the first place here...?

[MarzEz]

Автор сообщения: Airboss

Hello. A while ago I figured out how to pin steam games to your taskbar, with everything else like the steam overlay working as well. Here's how:

1. Right click on your deskop.
2. New -> Shortcut.
3. Paste the following: '%windir%\explorer.exe steam://rungameid/' and the ID of the steam game, then press next.
4. Type the name of the game and click Finish.

Next, you need to give this shortcut the icon of the actual exe. To do this, do the following:

1. Right click -> Properties
2. Change Icon
3. Browse
4. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common and click the name of the game
5. Double click the EXE.
6. Click Okay.
7. Click apply

Now you can drag the shortcut to the taskbar :D

Finally, a solution that works perfectly!
I had a game where I couldn't launch the EXE directly because it failed to initialise Steam.
I could only launch the Steam link, but that couldn't be pinned to task bar.
This fixed that issue.

[ItzEvanVR]

i know this thread is from 2015 but I just launched my game and right clicked on the taskbar icon and pressed pin to taskbar

[zippydsmlee]

Автор сообщения: ItzEvanMC

i know this thread is from 2015 but I just launched my game and right clicked on the taskbar icon and pressed pin to taskbar

Автор сообщения: ItzEvanMC

i know this thread is from 2015 but I just launched my game and right clicked on the taskbar icon and pressed pin to taskbar

Dose not work for every game due to how steams DRM hook is implemented, one of the biggest problems is the game shortcuts are internet links that go through steam.exe. Since windose is drunk and refuses to use bat/cmd files on the taskbar it makes it even more fun. One of the fastest ways to do it, is make a folder, then a toolbar in the taskbar to the folder, then put your steam .url files in there....

[swag messiah]

Автор сообщения: Shaggygoblin

In Steam>Library, right click the name of the game you want and create shortcut. Cut the shortcut from the desktop and paste it to the folder (steam>steamapps>common>gamefolder). right click empty space in that folder, New>Shortcut. Leave this "Create Shortcut" wizard open and right click > Properties on the game shortcut you pasted in this folder. In the Create shortcut wizard, enter: "%windir%\explorer.exe steam://rungameid/573490" (NO QUOTES, mind the space between the .exe and steam://...). The steam://rungameid/###### you want to get by copying from the shortcut steam made and you cut/pasted to this folder. Next > Name it, confirm. This new Shortcut you made, Right Click>Properties>Change Icon>Browse. Navigate to your games folder, again, in this new window and click the game/launcher .exe to use that Icon for your new shortcut. Icons are optional. You have just made a shortcut that you can pin to taskbar and/or start and will preserve the clcik>open steam>open game w/steam overlay/achievs functionality. Just R-Clicking and pinning the .exe to taskbar/start and running may cause overlay and/or achieves to not work. The above convoluted shrotcut preserves the functionality like launching from steam or it's .url based shortcut(unpinnable for many).

edit: there may be a steam_appid.txt file in your game folder you can get the gameid ###### from, it is an is an optional source for the right id to enter for the rungameid/######.

edit2: to explicitly add/pin games to the Steam Jumplist(Click&Hold and Drag Up on the Steam Taskbar shortcut) just drag the shortcut steam adds to the desktop to the taskbar and allow it to "Pin to the Steam Client Bootstrapper" (aka add it to the Steam Taskbar Icon Jumplist). Uncertain if this is a universal feature.

You can also just write "explorer steam://rungameid/####" to simplify the process. Great post btw thank you.

[Impgrin]

Автор сообщения: Danlboon

Just run the game, tab out, right click the icon on the taskbar and click "pin to taskbar"

So obvious and so not, thanks man, this is an epic trick :D

[Steve]

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