[ 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

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you can give it a different name
steam_icon.exe and set the shortcut to use that exe for its icon

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Legalize Mary Jane:

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

I got steam updates turned off with an cfg file. With this in the cfg file. So i don't even get updates for steam no more.

BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable
BootStrapperForceSelfUpdate=disable

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well that's super dumb.

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

Well that's super dumb.

No not really. I hate the new library and i converted it back with no way to get the new ugly library back. Dumb to you super super smart to me.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You have to update Steam client at some point or it will eventually just not work properly.

You don't have to use the new library in the latest client, just switch the view mode. And set steam library settings to; low bandwidth mode and low performance mode to avoid the steam client using alot more ram and using alot more Internet data.

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

You have to update Steam client at some point or it will eventually just not work properly.

You don't have to use the new library in the latest client, just switch the view mode. And set steam library settings to; low bandwidth mode and low performance mode to avoid the steam client using alot more ram and using alot more Internet data.

Lol You sound like a pushy used car salesman lol. It's working fine and the icon in the exe has been staying for 6 days now. This is as bad as you people trying to push spydows 10 on me.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

So you're not on Win10?

I guess you won't be buying any of the latest games then?

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

So you're not on Win10?

I guess you won't be buying any of the latest games then?

What games? list them i'll tell you if they are worth my time. Since steam still supports windows 7 so will the games.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Also might help to make a BAT file and put in the command to delete the icon cache for Windows. Then put that in your OS startup.

As sometimes when changing icons, they do change but in one area or another might appear to have not changed, simply due to current icon cache

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

Also might help to make a BAT file and put in the command to delete the icon cache for Windows. Then put that in your OS startup.

As sometimes when changing icons, they do change but in one area or another might appear to have not changed, simply due to current icon cache

So no list of games that only run on windows 10. Also i already made a batch file to do this plus my icons never screw up and don't need to refresh it every time windows loads. All that does is cause files to load slower when ran at startup cause it has to make the thumbnails and icons again. And when you got 8 hard drives with files that takes awhile.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Plenty of games that are Win10 only, look at up.

You still don't get the point of anything. You will accept your ways until something stops working. To which I will say " I told you so"

Like wtf do people think it's ok to still be on Win7. It's just like XP at this point... Dead.

[emoticorpse]

If it was up to you what else would you mandate on every body else?

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Bad 💀 Motha:

Plenty of games that are Win10 only, look at up.

You still don't get the point of anything. You will accept your ways until something stops working. To which I will say " I told you so"

Like wtf do people think it's ok to still be on Win7. It's just like XP at this point... Dead.

And just like this topic was dead yet you brought it back just to complain and argue like you always do. The first time you wrote was nothing but dribble and it's still dribble. My system works better then a well oiled machine. Most games that run only on windows 10 is pure garbage any ways. You told me i should need a batch file i said i already made one and you got mad and run off at the mouth. So stop necroing threads it's not allowed on steam.

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Ursprungligen skrivet av emoticorpse:

If it was up to you what else would you mandate on every body else?

people can use what ever they want. And i'll use what ever i want i don't need some person dictating me what i should and shouldn't be doing with something that i bought. If he bought then he could tell me what i can and can not do till then he should keep his dictating to himself.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes it works. For now.
Until you're hand is forced.
That's all I'm saying. These things with the steam client and os, etc. It's not always a kill switch kind of thing that occurs. But over time Win7 and 8 will have the same issue as XP. Hardware and Drivers that no longer support it. Followed by Software, like Steam. If even not Steam, the others will occur leaving users no choice.

I'm not trying to debate what you do or how you use your PC, put on it, etc. Was just making some suggestions.