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[mbsurfer]

Sorry I couldn't make it guys.  My Steam was acting gay as always, I finally got around to sending in a Support Ticket.  If you guys could help I would be grateful.

Steam Will Not Start

I've had Steam for just about 4 years now, and suddenly this past month I couldn't launch Steam. It would sit in my processes menu using 14mb of RAM, but 0% of CPU usage. I would end the process, and restart Steam only to find it sitting in my Task Manager doing nothing again. I read plenty of other people having the same problem, and many people said the deleting the ClientRegistry.blob would fix it and reupdate Steam. It does reupdate and gets to 100% but then the update box disappears and nothing happens. I also looked at the programs that could interfere with the start of Steam, and I have none of them. I uninstalled my Anti-Virus (Avast) just to be sure, but that didn't make a difference. I added an exception on my Firewall for Steam, but still no luck. I even totally uninstalled Steam, then reinstalled it, but that didn't fix it. I haven't done anything, or downloaded anything that would make this randomly occur. Please help.

[Mark [lodle]]

mb go into your steam folder and delete every thing BUT the folder steamapps and the file steam.exe

Restart steam and it should download all missing files and start updating.

[mbsurfer]

mb go into your steam folder and delete every thing BUT the folder steamapps and the file steam.exe

Restart steam and it should download all missing files and start updating.

I even totally uninstalled Steam, then reinstalled it, but that didn't fix it.

Meaning I deleted all my games too.

[Mark [lodle]]

ah, i didnt read the quote

[Wake[of]theBunT]

if anyone can help him that'd be good, i opened this up to the public area from the beta test section for more support

[mbsurfer]

If someone could help out that would be amazing because steam still hasn't responded to my support ticket..

[Jeron [SharpSh00tah]]

that happened to me and i reinstalled steam, works now

[Jonathon [SSL]]

I think I had a problem like this once. I recall it being fixed by deleting all of my GCF files because I've had issues with steam running extremely slowly or not even launching, which were usually remedied by deleting a certain GCF file (The GCF was most likely corrupted or something, giving steam a hard time of reading it). Verifying the GCFs didn't help, only deleting it.

Just throwing that out there, since it's the only thing that I can think of that could possibly help which hasn't already been mentioned.

[mbsurfer]

I have already COMPLETELY reinstalled Steam.  Meaning I deleted all my GCFs, settings, and files that were in the Steam folder.  It's a fresh install, and still no dice.

[mbsurfer]

*BUMP*

Steam Support is stupid, and just tells me to reinstall while it says in my ticket that I already tried that.  My Steam still isn't working, and now I'm just flat out pissed.

[Mark [lodle]]

reinstall windows.

[major]

     Have you tried seeing if steam has any lingering registry files?

     If not I heard sticking a sub woofer magnet to your hard drive is like a quick system restore to a better previous state.

[mbsurfer]

I already checked my registry files and whatnot for that kind of stuff, and it was all fine.  The only thing I could think of would to be reinstall Windows, and I really would love to refrain from that

[Loafie, Hero of Dreams]

that sounds very unnecessary, but i am also a very unnecessarily druno person, so take what you will

[kraid]

Reinstalling Windows is neccessary from Time to Time.
I just did it about a month ago, course it was that slow e.g. it took about 10 minutes to be fully loaded at startup.
Cleaning the registry and defrag the system i do every once in a while, also got FW and antivirus programm running and up to date, so i didn't see a real reason for Windows beeing that lame.
In addition to this i had to remove this ugly SecuRom which came with FC2, the game was shit anyway and i never ever play it again (and i just keep away from games useing this "protection" from nowon).

At the end i decided to reinstall the OS and now it works amazing fast again.
Of course i reinstalled windows before, so i seperated my HDD into partitions for Windows/Programms, Games and Data.
This way i just need to delete the Windows partition and of course reinstall Programms and some games, but i keep all of my wonderfull data.

Sure it's a time consuming thing to Formate your OS drive and reinstall OS and all programms, but after a few times you'll get used to it.

[Mark [lodle]]

Takes me 40mins to reinstall windows, funny thing is i have never had to reinstall os x ever.

[mbsurfer]

I just don't know if it's necessary to reinstall my OS because of one program not working.

[Rodney 1.666]

*shutters*
I've had to format and reinstall so many times it's easy now. Just very time consuming...
At least five times I've done it on my computers, and a few on a couple friends of mine. (Though with them it was just a lack of Internet caution on their part.)