Steam re-downloading all of my games?

[Schizophonic]

I generally store all my files and games onto the D: and keeping my C: for just the OS.

Just did a image install and loading up steam. That updated itself and when i double click on the games (not installed) it starts downloading itself.

Do i have to do this when ever i install my image?

 

[Buffman]

Sorry to thread hijack, but rather than start a new thread, how do I uninstall games on steam? I only play TF2 so was gonna uninstall portal and maybe keep HL2 as well.

 

[Ogs]

Sorry to thread hijack, but rather than start a new thread, how do I uninstall games on steam? I only play TF2 so was gonna uninstall portal and maybe keep HL2 as well.

Open Steam, right click on what you want rid of, and click Delete Local Content, badabing .

 

[Buffman]

Open Steam, right click on what you want rid of, and click Delete Local Content, badabing .

Oh, I looked at this and thought it only got rid of patches so didnt bother, thanks!

 

[AndyBorzi]

I generally store all my files and games onto the D: and keeping my C: for just the OS.

Just did a image install and loading up steam. That updated itself and when i double click on the games (not installed) it starts downloading itself.

Do i have to do this when ever i install my image?

I am similar to you, I store all my progs on D: and keep the c: for os. I recently went dual boot, with a new os on E: and the original on c:

IIRC, I didn't have to download the games again but I did reinstall Steam client onto D: (previously on c and copied the directory the games were in (on c to the new directory on d: and all was fine. - Though I did lose some of my save games.

 

[bledd]

steam works standalone

no need to install it, just install it once, then you can pretty much copy the folder somewhere else, and just run the steam.exe

 

[Devil_Spawn]

steam doesnt have any kind of registry settings, or atleast, none that are important.

if the files are still in the steamapps directory, they shouldnt be downloading.