SOLVED: How to make the steam icon pinned to my taskbar with options like shortcuts and exit steam, big picture, etc.?

[いばら姫]

Before I reinstalled Windows, I made a backup file for Dota2. Everything went well, I play Dota2 again and all, but I can't access Dota2 anymore like before. Before the reinstallation I would right click on the Steam quicklaunch icon on my taskbar and it would say 'Steam', 'Unpin this program from taskbar', 'Close all windows' but also it would say 'Recent' and under that 'Dota2'. Now 'Recent Dota2' doesn't exist.. It was the way I always entered the game and now I have to go click on that Steam icon, wait for the Steam window to open - go to library and open Dota2... and if I put Dota2 shortcut on my desktop then it is showing two Valve intros one after another, if i use set launch options to move it, it moves only one intro so I don't use that way of entering Dota2 either. How can i put back Dota 2 to the place it was before, so I can just click right click on Steam icon and then Dota2?
I checked all the settings, verified game catche..
Please somebody help me make access to Dota2 like it was before

EDIT

I realized I have steam also near my clock and there when i click right click I have all the games and everything...now how to move it to stay pinned to my taskbar like before? I have already steam pinned, but that icon is useless, it doesn't have game shortcuts, nor friendlist, nor nothing, I can't even really close steam from that pinned steam, it just hides it. I want to put the one hidden near the clock on the taskbar!!

I asked some friends, some have it same like me, some have it like I had it before, so it's not some patch. And of course nobody knows how to change it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

There are two taskbar icons;

- Large one in the main taskbar
- Smaller one in the taskbar (aka Notification Icons)

If you reinstalled Windows, by default u won't see "extra" icons in the notification area. Those small icons next to the clock. Right click your Taskbar > Properties > Notification Area > Customize. You can customize what shows and such, or simply choose down below to Show All.

Once that is done, with Steam Client running now u should be able to right-click the smaller notification Steam icon and from there access your recently launched games/apps, etc.

The main large taskbar icon will only handle some steam options; doesn't have a recent list u can access from there.

[いばら姫]

I clicked show icons and notifications, still no dota icon :/

[いばら姫]

I guess I can't have it that way after restoring the backup file :'(

[いばら姫]

I just realized I have steam now also near my clock and there when i click right click I have all the games and everything...now how to move it to stay pinned to my taskbar like before?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

When Steam is running as an active/open Window then it should show the larger taskbar icon; then u can right click that one and click PIN

[いばら姫]

That's what I'm talking about.. I have both, the one pinned and the other near the clock. It also tricks me now when I click exit steam it doesn't actually exit cause I have to click exit on the one near the clock... The one which is pinned is useless

[いばら姫]

you could have added me to help bad-motna

[Reis]

I was just searching for this too, here's the solution:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2eflar/right_clicking_steam_on_taskbar_only_shows_one/

You can either:

"Settings - Interface - Set Taskbar Preferences and click off whatever you dont need, it starts showing more games"

or, in windows 8.1 (dunno about 7)

"Right click on the taskbar, click on 'Properties' and then go to the 'Jump Lists' tab. Change the 'Number of recent items to display' and you can have more things."

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Access:

you could have added me to help bad-motna

Very sorry if u added me and I ignored; I did not recognize your name or remember this thread; again I apologize.

TBO I don't see what the big deal is, Steam has always relied on the tasbar icon next to clock in order to EXIT. And I was actually a little mistaken about this until I tried it again. Cause when Steam is on the taskbar as a active app icon, it does not offer an EXIT option from that. As clicking Close Window is basically same as clicking the X on Steam Client window, which just does Auto-Minimize-to-Taskbar.

Add me again if u desire and I'll add u if u still need help on this or other PC stuff.


*PS:

I've suggested it many times over many years; I wish Steam would stop mix-matching what they are and who we as a Community are. If we had access to Community things from a person's profile, like how I can click on your name in here and click "View Posts"; that too should also be allowed when viewing a persons regular Steam profile. Then at least I for one could keep track of things related to forums better in a sense that I could better connect up with who's Steam Profile does what on the Community Forums. I mean anyone can view the forums and click a persons name and click View Posts, so why not from someone Steam Profile?

[いばら姫]

I tried everything in the preferences. Everything I clicked that would usually affect that didn't work.. Really, nothing helped me. I asked so many people for help, I heard the same suggestions over and over again. Even when I told them what I have already tried to fix it, they told me to try what I had just told them about what I had already tried and which didn't help. So I got pissed about nothing. People "trying" to help me but not listening(reading), as if they are assuming I the problem just poped up and they don't need to read my whole sentences cause maybe I'm just being dramatic over it. Then I ask them why are they telling me the same thing I told them I had already tried before and they get mad at me lol. So the icons didn't come back whatever option I changed....until:
.... I uninstalled Steam without deleting the steam games, then installed it again and suddenly the problem was fixed. The icons appeared and I can once again exit Steam by right clicking on the Steam quicklaunch icon on my taskbar. I can now also start games by right clicking on Steam quicklaunch icon on my taskbar :)

[Ϡ Ruza]

Hello, I have had similar problem to this. But as first I start with some irrelevant things to this thread and then tell you your fix.

Duplicated Steam in Taskbar after Running a pinned Steam in taskbar:
Unpin Steam from Taskbar and pin it back again from your Steam directory exe "Steam.exe".

Recent games in Steam Taskbar not showing:
Make Sure for me in Windows10 you have checked in "Taskbar settings/Start" turned on "Show recently opened items in Jump List on Start or the taskbar"
Make Sure in Steam "Settings/Interface/Set TASKBAR PREFERENCES" you have unchecked enough of listed items for Recent games to be displayed.

SOLVE for your problem:
Pinned Steam to taskbar not showing options such as Exit, Library or any option at all:
Problem is that when you Running steam without any Steam window opened then Steam runs as Icon in Toolbar(things next to clock opened) aka TrayIcon. To rid of this for me in Windows10 right click taskbar go to "Taskbar settings/Taskbar" Click on "Select which icons appear on the taskbar" find "Steam Client Bootstrapper" or something named Steam and turn it off. Restart steam and it be done.


Hope this guide helped to rid off any unwanted setups you had and made your Steam be easier to use from Taskbar ;)

[Brint]

I'm not sure if this is still an issue for anyone but this problem was happening to me on Windows 7 and none of these answers/solutions fixed it. However with a bit of trial and error I found my own solution. It may or may not work for you but it is worth a shot.

1: Right click on steam.exe
2: Click properties.
3: Click compatibility at the top.
4: Check the "Run this program in compatibility mode for: " checkbox.
5: Select Windows 7.

This worked for me.
Hope it helped,
If not Good Luck.