Is My Steam Broken? :S

Stuff · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:12

Booted up the PC, clicked the Steam icon and get this:

Looking in my Steam folder (Shortcut destination), my steam.exe seems to have gone missing! I have no idea how though?!

Anyway, I try some of the other .exe's and get this everytime:

Any ideas on how to fix gratefully appreciated!

Tefal · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:13

dl the steam installer from the steam site and run it.

should fix it.

peter212693 · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:14

Close steam, delete the "ClientRegistry.blob" from your steam directory then restart steam.

See how that goes mate

Stuff · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:17

peter212693 said:
Close steam, delete the "ClientRegistry.blob" from your steam directory then restart steam.

See how that goes mate

No luck. Obviously still no Steam.exe, but the other 2 give the same error messages.

Tefal said:
dl the steam installer from the steam site and run it.

should fix it.

I'll give it a go, thanks.

Stuff · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:21

EDIT: Installed to a new directory and just copy and pasted the Steam.exe to my existing folder.

However, running it says: Windows cannot access the device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access this item.

It then deletes Steam.exe

?!?!?!

peter212693 · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:23

backup your steam apps folder, uninstall, reinstall, drop your steam apps folder back in.

Stuff · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:31

peter212693 said:
backup your steam apps folder, uninstall, reinstall, drop your steam apps folder back in.

There must be another way!

Tefal · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:43

Camelpaw said:
There must be another way!

don't copy, cut

cut and paste it elsewhere then delete the steam folder reinstall and cut paste it back.

doesn't take any time to cut and paste folders and you don't have 2 of them.

peter212693 · 26 Aug 2010 at 23:43

Ouch! 181GB I think its going to be a long night

I dont know of another way im sorry mate unless someone else does.

What if you cut it to another place on the same drive then cut it back? Should be a lot quicker then copying it.

EDIT: beaten to it

MathewS · 27 Aug 2010 at 02:09

I remember having this problem, had to uninstall steam then install it again, just remember to backup the steamapp folder, i didnt....

dillingerdan · 27 Aug 2010 at 03:15

You only have to cut it out of that folder, so to the root is fine (So E:\), then it'll do it almost instantly. You don't need to move it across to another drive if you don't have to, just so you can delete the F-ed up Steam folder you have, then follow the mans instructions. Which is the same process I use when moving games between Windows Reinstalls without having to redownload it all.