Steam Supports Windows 7 features

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Xerxes

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Cool, they added jumplist support a while ago but looks like they've added more features, excellent! updating now, thanks for the heads up (Y) :)

EDIT: Meh, says I already have the latest version but I don't get the recently played or progress in the superbar....guess it not out here yet.

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Umm they updated this when windows 7 released, but yeah, its nice that it integrates

Yes, your right they did but this is added functionality.

They gave us this at the release of Win7:

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and now they added recently played and download progress in the superbar (see OP for the pics, no need to repost them here)

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Jumplist and progress bar support aren't exactly new, they've been in it for weeks now.

It's still buggy though, my Steam icon alternates between the TF2 icon the the Garry's Mod icon.

It's because you directly start the games from the Start Menu/Desktop. The shortcut only opens Steam, and then the game. It also has it's own icon. Windows then thinks that Steam is meant to have the icon for the game, and presto, wrong icon.

The way around it is to start the games from within Steam.

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tsupersonic

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Yes, your right they did but this is added functionality.

They gave us this at the release of Win7:

and now they added recently played and download progress in the superbar (see OP for the pics, no need to repost them here)

no, it's been there when they released the update to support win. 7 features...

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It's because you directly start the games from the Start Menu/Desktop. The shortcut only opens Steam, and then the game. It also has it's own icon. Windows then thinks that Steam is meant to have the icon for the game, and presto, wrong icon.
In other words, it is buggy. ;)
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Pin Steam to the taskbar, open it, it loads up in a separate taskbar slot! Plus, there is no way to disable the system tray icon.

Half arsed attempt as usual by Valve, the money these guys make and they won't spend any money to improve features. Reminds me of Blizzard, 10 million subscribers to WOW and they still milk you for every penny.

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What I mean is, take Neowin for example, it manages a give-away or two per year and looks after it's community. You get nothing from Valve, they are tight!

The likes of Pidgin and uTorrent (both free) manage it, Valve drag on for months trying to get stuff right.

Can't blame them I suppose, they are out to make money, but half arsed attempts to appease personally annoy me when they do so little else.

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Xerxes

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no, it's been there when they released the update to support win. 7 features...

No it hasn't, what I've shown in my screenie is all I've got. However, I've opted out of any betas so it's possibly why I don't have the other features yet (as The_Decryptor said they are still buggy which suggest they are still in beta).

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No it hasn't, what I've shown in my screenie is all I've got. However, I've opted out of any betas so it's possibly why I don't have the other features yet (as The_Decryptor said they are still buggy which suggest they are still in beta).

Nope - the Windows 7 update was pushed out 1-2 weeks ago to everyone.

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Xerxes

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Nope - the Windows 7 update was pushed out 1-2 weeks ago to everyone.

Well I never got it :/ as I said the screenshot I posted above is all I got, no download progress in the superbar and no recently played either.

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Steam need a complete make over, I believe they should right the code again from scratch and change the ugly UI. It drives me crazy when it freezes all the time. The current code is so buggy and the UI is a nightmare. It is a shame on valve to leave it like that. Sorely I still buy games and use steam

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Xerxes

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You have it, it's just very buggy.

Your not wrong, it suddenly appeared the other day :p talk about random.

Steam need a complete make over, I believe they should right the code again from scratch and change the ugly UI. It drives me crazy when it freezes all the time. The current code is so buggy and the UI is a nightmare. It is a shame on valve to leave it like that. Sorely I still buy games and use steam

Not really, it's skinable so you can change how it looks so I'm not bothered by the UI. I've never had it freeze on me though, solid as a rock here :) the one thing that kinda bothers me about Steam is if your account gets hacked, you loose everything. Other then that small concern I love Steam it rocks :)

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Never had steam crash, bug out, or freeze. Don't know WTF you people are doing...

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. The only issue I've had is that the update downloader/installer for the actual steam client is unreliable.

The only thing they've got left to do now is to remove the tray icon, and then I'll be happy :)

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