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Because Steam game shortcuts are URLs, it's not possible to add them to the Start Menu. SteamPipe is an approach to solving that problem.
It works by creating regular Windows shortcuts that link to itself, but which also include the Steam game ID. When you use the shortcut, SteamPipe passes the game ID to Steam to start the game.
How to use:
- Start SteamPipe, drag a Steam game shortcut into it, hit the button.
- Or just drag a Steam game shortcut onto its icon.
- In either case, a new Start-Menu-compatible shortcut to the game will be created on the Desktop.
NOTE: Because SteamPipe.exe creates shortcuts to itself, it must be in a permanent location before use, otherwise created shortcuts will break when you move it somewhere else.
Use Visual Studio Community to build SteamPipe. The binary is not hosted because of malware false positives due to use of WSH and shell-execute. Examine the C# source to satisfy yourself that it's not doing anything malicious before use.
Features
- Allows you to create shortcuts to Steam games which can be added to the Start Menu or pinned to the taskbar.
- Can create shortcuts by opening the UI and drag-dropping Steam game shortcuts into its window.
- Or by simply dropping a Steam game shortcut onto it (or onto a shortcut to it).
- Single .exe, no installer, no background tasks, no admin rights needed.
- Has a shiny red icon.
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