Anyone have any ideas on how best to automatically and en-mass delete all my non-steam game links from my games menu?
Steam – How to remove all non-steam games from games library
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Just click on the Videos landmark.
As of the latest update to Steam, you can now PERMANENTLY remove games from your Steam account!
Steps
- Log into Steam Support
- Select Games, Software, etc.,
- Select the game from the search function that shows up
- Select the option: I want to permanently remove this game from my account.
- Select the option: Ok, remove the listed games from my account permanently.
- Repeat as many times as you have games you'd like to get rid of.
You can browse over your entire library and choose which software you'd like to permanently get rid of. But note, once you have removed a game from your library, it's gone permanently, so if later down the road you'd like it back you'll have to purchase it again.
You'll also need to watch out for some other issues. The thread linked above has noted that if the game is part of a bundle (HumbleBundle, etc.), removing one game from a "package" may require you to remove all the games from that specific bundle.
Best Answer
I believe that simply deleting the shortcuts file, which is
<steam installation dir>/config/shortcuts.vdf, should do it, but I haven't tried it myself so I suggest backing it up first. I don't believe it should do any harm in any case.Another surefire way is to remove Steam and re-install it, but even if you back up all the game data locally first and then reload it, the whole process will take longer than just removing all the links one by one.