How to pin the Steam feature to play games on Windows 10?

Since Windows 8 and continue until Windows 10, application shortcuts can be pinned to both the Start Menu and the Taskbar. It can be said that this feature is extremely useful for applications you use regularly.

If you play the game via Steam, you may notice that it is impossible to pin the Steam game feature, even if you have created a game shortcut from the Steam library. The reason is because the Steam shortcut is created as shortcuts to the Internet. And this shortcut works better on the Desktop, when double-clicking the shortcut, Windows will analyze the shortcut link as link steam: // , and will run through the Steam application to determine which game to open.

Although the Internet shortcut link cannot pin to the Start Menu or the Taskbar, this doesn't mean you can't pin the Steam feature to play games on your Windows 10 computer. Please refer to the following article of Network Administrator.

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Steam feature to play games on Windows 10

1. To do this, right-click the game and click Properties .

2. On the Properties window, navigate to the Local Files tab and click Browse Local Files .

3. Here you search the main EXE file of the game. If the file is not visible, it is possible that the file has been stored in a subdirectory. Such as fileLuftrausers.exe found in the bin directory.

4. Right-click the EXE file and select Create shortcut . Remember to change the shortcut name to any name you want to pin to the Taskbar and Start Menu.

5. Right-click the shortcut and select Pin to Start or Pin to taskbar .