[ Problem Solved Perfectly Mods Please Lock] Changing steam icon on task bar with resource hacker.

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I have a custom steam icon on my task bar for steam as you can see in the screenshot below. When i click on my custom icon steam for what ever reason will load with the default icon on the taskbar ignoring my custom icon.

So what i was wondering if steam would allow it is to use resource hacker and bring up the steam.exe in it and change the icon in there then save it. It worked for windows media player. Would steam have any adverse affects doing this and is it against steams TOS?

You can see in the screen shot below that steam is ignoring my custom icon when it runs.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014010944

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Shortcuts can have edited icons. But the exe itself can not

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Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Shortcuts can have edited icons. But the exe itself can not

The custom icon on my taskbar is a shortcut to steam. But when i click on it to run steam it comes up in it's own original icon. So i figured i could just resource hack the steam.exe and put in my custom icon since steam don't want to use it since it runs with it's original icon.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's just an icon, like who cares.

It will always run in task manager and notifications bar with the original exe icon

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Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

It's just an icon, like who cares.

It will always run in task manager and notifications bar with the original exe icon

It matters to me it throws my whole theme off.
But since it don't matter to you then don't bother commenting no more.

[emoticorpse]

Here's my attempt to guess to answer that...

I don't think Steam really cares about you modifying an icon of their program for cosmetic reasons. I do think they care about people modifying their executable for other reasons making them kind of enforce some kind of self-check on the authenticity of the executable which is what might end up getting in YOUR way of doing what you want to do.

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Originally posted by emoticorpse:

Here's my attempt to guess to answer that...

I don't think Steam really cares about you modifying an icon of their program for cosmetic reasons. I do think they care about people modifying their executable for other reasons making them kind of enforce some kind of self-check on the authenticity of the executable which is what might end up getting in YOUR way of doing what you want to do.

Yea i was going to make a backup of steam.exe file before i modified the exe. I just didn't know if steam would ban me or something for messing with their exe.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They won't ban you for changing the icon. People were livid when Valve changed it last and people reverted back.

Try this...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3658515990041466314/#c1755772022656417483

I don't see the Valve dev having issues here...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/1760230157498985366/#c1760230682463292663

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Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

They won't ban you for changing the icon. People were livid when Valve changed it last and people reverted back.

Try this...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3658515990041466314/#c1755772022656417483

I don't see the Valve dev having issues here...

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/1760230157498985366/#c1760230682463292663

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I will try what was said in them links before i open up the exe in resource hacker and modify it with my own icon.

[_I_]

taskbar or tray?

taskbar (near the start menu) is a shortcut, easy to change with the shortcut properties, select the new icon
tray (near the clock) is whats running, cant be changed

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Originally posted by _I_:

taskbar or tray?

taskbar (near the start menu) is a shortcut, easy to change with the shortcut properties, select the new icon
tray (near the clock) is whats running, cant be changed

Like I said in the OP if you read it and looked at the screenshot it don't work. With a custom icon steam ignores it and uses its own original icon. Check OP for screenshot.

But by your answer you failed to read the OP in full.

[_I_]

unpin from taskbar, make a shortcut for steam on the desktop, change its icon, pin that shortcut to the taskbar done

[emoticorpse]

Originally posted by _I_:

unpin from taskbar, make a shortcut for steam on the desktop, change its icon, pin that shortcut to the taskbar done

He's talking about when Steam actually launches. The Icon that forever sits in the actual taskbar space representative of the application running. Not just the icon itself that sits there while the application is closed even. I just tried this method and the taskbar icon itself changed but Steam still uses it's own icon in the "area" I was talking about.

[shoopy]

Windows 10 has a thing where icon caching is screwy. I just tested this and it didn't change at first but after some hours using the PC it suddenly changed to the icon that I selected.

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Originally posted by _I_:

unpin from taskbar, make a shortcut for steam on the desktop, change its icon, pin that shortcut to the taskbar done

Wrong. That's what I did and it don't work that way no more with steam.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Legalize Mary Jane:

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

Here's my attempt to guess to answer that...

I don't think Steam really cares about you modifying an icon of their program for cosmetic reasons. I do think they care about people modifying their executable for other reasons making them kind of enforce some kind of self-check on the authenticity of the executable which is what might end up getting in YOUR way of doing what you want to do.

Yea i was going to make a backup of steam.exe file before i modified the exe. I just didn't know if steam would ban me or something for messing with their exe.

You can't.
Any modified steam files will get replaced with original upon launch of steam client