Is there any way to hide games from Steam Library installed games list?
The reason - i want to have installed Payday, L4D, GTA etc games on my PC, but baby should not be able to run it. And better even see it.
OS - Windows 7

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There is no parental control built into steam itself. How do you expect a baby to run a program on a computer anyway?

edit: Simple fix ,log off of your steam account when you aren't using it.

12 years ago
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He should be able to play some games like TokiTory, FlightControl, Mole Control and so on.

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Technically Steam accounts are for one user only... ... ... :P
but that sounds asinine in this situation.
I haven't tried this, but it might work, at least for some games...
Create a new Steam account, and add shortcuts to the "safe" games as "non-steam" games.
I know a friend was able to run some already-installed games under the wrong account, thinking nothing was wrong, when he forgot his original username.

12 years ago
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Another good idea!
Not sure about Steam DRM, but will try your suggestion.

12 years ago
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I think you can share with a younger child, there are a couple of rare exceptions like that.

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попробуй менять после выхода из игры расширение файла запуска c exe на любое другое, тогда игра не запустится, когда будешь сам играть- просто измени обратно

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Ну это точно не вариант.
У меня штук 20 игр как минимум установлено (и то, только потому, что места на системном диске нет). Половину из них ребенку нельзя показывать.

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isn't there any parental control in windows itself?

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Not sure. Never used it before, cause don't need it.
Do you know how to use it?

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i don't know if it exists at all. in osx it is available and i use it to define and control what the children use. for windows it must exist something to do that too. if not in the os itself, there must be some shareware for this. the idea of favorites will only work when the child is really young, then he will be actually developing his own viruses, so you'll need something stronger ;)

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But now child is really young and it's ok
Most time he looks as i play some games, like a cartoons, but sometimes try to play by himself
Thanks for warning about viruses :)

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my children enjoy tokitori and crayon physics, just to mention 2 that are on steam. anyway what they enjoy most is to play with their parents (believe me)

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Yes, he prefer to play with me, you are definitely right.

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Add them to favorites and toggle the list to only show favorites.
Anything else won't appear until you change it back to show all games or all installed games.

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Good idea, thanks

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At the right side under links, there's a category menu. I never used it before but maybe it would do what you want to do?

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Just create shortcuts in your desktop of the games that you want, so your baby can play them just by clicking in shortcuts without having to open the Steam window/library

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Hmm, it's not easy to him to select it by icons (in steam library it has big pictures like this).

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You can change those big pics, in the upper right change thhe "view" to list.

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In this case he can't find his games.

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u'r baby can use steam ??!!

12 years ago
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He can use mouse.

12 years ago
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I've heard that Game Nanny can be used :) It stores the info well hidden in the registry so nobody should find it
You can also chose which games can be played I think :)

Cheers

12 years ago
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Hm... Looks like bull's eye hit.
Thanks a lot!

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No prob, happy to help out :)

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Thanks for the link. This could be useful when my kids start playing PC games.

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I've yet to see the issue with a baby playing L4D, to be honest. When I have kids, they're going to think that's the best thing since warm teat.

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Closed 12 years ago by Veidali.