No tray icon on Windows11

[dream2333]

I started the program on the latest Windows 11, but didn't find any icons in the tray bar, and CEF didn't shut down after the game started.

[Aetopia]

Can you send a screenshot of your tray menu?

[veksha]

i have tray icon on my windows 11 (10.0.22621.3155) path to steam folder: D:\Games\Steam\

what is your ver and path? (it was a bug in the past related to path length.)

[dream2333]

Can you send a screenshot of your tray menu? There is no NoSteamWebHelper tray icon, only Steam icon.

[dream2333]

i have tray icon on my windows 11 (10.0.22621.3155) path to steam folder: D:\Games\Steam\

what is your ver and path? (it was a bug in the past related to path length.)

win11(10.0.22631) My steam floder path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam

[Aetopia]

I can only think of 2 things:

• Something is blocking the DLL from being injected potentially.
• Paths aren't being resolved correctly.

DWORD dwSize = MAX_PATH;
LPWSTR lpExeName = HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, dwSize * sizeof(WCHAR));

while (!QueryFullProcessImageNameW(GetCurrentProcess(), 0, lpExeName, &dwSize))
    lpExeName = HeapReAlloc(lpExeName, HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY, lpExeName, (dwSize += MAX_PATH) * sizeof(WCHAR));

for (DWORD nChar = lstrlenW(lpExeName); nChar < -1; nChar--)
    if (lpExeName[nChar] == '\\')
    {
        lpExeName[nChar] = '\0';
        SetCurrentDirectoryW(lpExeName);
        break;
    }

I doubt paths are the issue because I rewrote the entire code responsible for setting paths. You could try using Process Explorer to see if the DLL actually loaded into Steam.

[Aetopia]

I finally got to know what's preventing the NoSteamWebHelper from functioning properly.

To detect if Steam has fully initialized, NoSteamWebHelper waits for a window with the class name of vguiPopupWindow and title of Untitled to spawn.

if (CompareStringOrdinal(L"vguiPopupWindow", -1, szClassName, -1, FALSE) != CSTR_EQUAL ||
    CompareStringOrdinal(L"Untitled", -1, szString, -1, FALSE) != CSTR_EQUAL)
    return;

It seems Steam changes the window title name based on what language, you are currently using in Windows. Since Steam creates multiple windows with the class name of vguiPopupWindow but only one with a title.

The program now just checks if there is a non-null title.

if (CompareStringOrdinal(L"vguiPopupWindow", -1, szClassName, -1, FALSE) != CSTR_EQUAL ||
    GetWindowTextLengthW(hwnd) < 1)
    return;

[Aetopia]

Please try using v4.1.2.

[GogoVang]

Had the same problem as the OP, v4.1.2 fixed this. Huge thank you.

[Aetopia]

Fixed 👍🏼.

[liliill]

Fixed 👍🏼.

Does not work!

[Aetopia]

Fixed 👍🏼.

Does not work!

Please make a new issue for this!

[liliill]

I have solved the problem once and for all, create a batch file and add it there! After launching Steam, run the batch file.

@echo off taskkill /f /im steam.exe start "" "c:/program files (x86)/steam\steam.exe" -dev -console -nofriendsui -no-dwrite -nointro -nobigpicture -nofasthtml -nocrashmonitor -noshaders -no-shared-textures -disablehighdpi -cef-single-process -cef-in-process-gpu -single_core -cef-disable-d3d11 -cef-disable-sandbox -disable-winh264 -no-cef-sandbox -vrdisable -cef-disable-breakpad