Steam Problem

[Aggressor and Usurper]

For some strange reason (I've tried installing and reinstalling several times) as soon as I start Steam, the process immediately disappears. I'm not running any of the programs listed in the list of programs that interfere with Steam, and the ones I do have running, also run on my laptop, which I can run Steam on with no problem, though it has no regular internet access, so it's not an option. My internet speed is 56k dial-up but I doubt that would be a problem-is there a simple explanation for this?

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

What I'd suggest doing is deleting, moving or renaming your clientregistry.blob file. It's in your steam directory, and doing that solves about 40% of steam problems.

Basically, just do any of the above, and start steam. It should download a new file, and if that was the problem in the first place, it should be fixed. If that doesn't work, I'd check steam support.

Steam directory is C:/Program Files/Steam right? Because there's no clientregistry.blob file there, in any of the folders. I have hidden folders set to visible.

 

[Outright Villainy]

What I'd suggest doing is deleting, moving or renaming your clientregistry.blob file. It's in your steam directory, and doing that solves about 40% of steam problems.

Basically, just do any of the above, and start steam. It should download a new file, and if that was the problem in the first place, it should be fixed. If that doesn't work, I'd check steam support.

Steam directory is C:/Program Files/Steam right? Because there's no clientregistry.blob file there, in any of the folders. I have hidden folders set to visible.

Yeah, it should be there. That's where it is on mine anyway...

 

[Saint_Zvlkx]

How long have you let Steam sit?
Also, what OS are you running?

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

What I'd suggest doing is deleting, moving or renaming your clientregistry.blob file. It's in your steam directory, and doing that solves about 40% of steam problems.

Basically, just do any of the above, and start steam. It should download a new file, and if that was the problem in the first place, it should be fixed. If that doesn't work, I'd check steam support.

Steam directory is C:/Program Files/Steam right? Because there's no clientregistry.blob file there, in any of the folders. I have hidden folders set to visible.

Yeah, it should be there. That's where it is on mine anyway...

Well, it's not there. :/ Weird.

How long have you let Steam sit?
Also, what OS are you running?

Only just installed it. XP.