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1. #How to pin a document to start menu on windows 10 windows 10#
2. #How to pin a document to start menu on windows 10 software#

One last note though: once you pin it to the start menu, don’t delete the original shortcut, or strange things will happen, like losing the icon.

#How to pin a document to start menu on windows 10 software#

Select it, and you will be able to set your new shortcut’s icon to match.Īnd that’s it! A bit of work, but it should only take a minute in total once you know the steps, and no special software is required. In there you should see a number of Icon files with random strings of characters as names. Browse to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steam\games (assuming the default location for your steam install). To do that, right click on the shortcut and choose “Change Icon…”.

#How to pin a document to start menu on windows 10 windows 10#

As a final step though, you can give it an icon matching the game. Caramen - I use this as part of the build for our Windows 10 images, normally apply this after applications have been installed and build the XML file via script as we have different applications for Start Menu/Task Bar shortcuts for different systems for example Kiosk, Desktops and Laptops. You now have a working shortcut that you can pin to your start menu or taskbar. Set the name of the shortcut to the name of the game.So, what you end up with should look something like, “%windir%\explorer.exe steam://rungameid/212680” When prompted for the location, type “%windir%\explorer.exe” (no quotes), followed by a space, and then paste the URL you copied from the Steam shortcut.Right click on the desktop and go to New->Shortcut.It should be something like “steam://rungameid/212680” Right click on the new shortcut, go to Properties, and then copy the ‘URL’ section.Open Steam, right click on the game in your library, and choose “Create Desktop Shortcut”.A pin icon will appear on the right side of your selected file. Now drag your mouse on the file, you wish to pin. You can also click Control + O, on your keyboard to access recently visited files. There is a way to manually create shortcuts to steam games that you can put anywhere though, including the start menu. From the File menu choose Open, File > Open. There are apps that will do this, but they require access to your steam account, and there is an intermediate step in opening the game. For some reason, Steam lets you create desktop shortcuts to individual games, but there is no straightforward way to add a tile pointing to the game in your start menu. This has nothing to do with Tempest or web development, but I just figured this out, and it might be useful to someone.