Please help, what's wrong?

modo77 · 7 Nov 2007 at 18:01

Give this a try, mainly removing the reg entries http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Cleanly_reinstalling_Steam

Squark · 7 Nov 2007 at 18:22

Sorry that didnt work either

modo77 · 7 Nov 2007 at 18:28

Pfft.

Only other thing I can think of is firewall/router causing the prob. Looking at the steampowered forums a lot of people have got this error and removing firewall/routers fixed it.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/search.php?searchid=722034

Squark · 7 Nov 2007 at 19:33

I just cant find the connection problem, Windows Firewall is quite limited, I dont have much experience with avast but is there some setting within that which I need to adjust?

TriedandTested · 7 Nov 2007 at 19:43

http://forums.livingwithstyle.com/showthread.php?t=229112

May help, may not.

People on there are posting the missing .dll

TriedandTested · 7 Nov 2007 at 19:46

http://support.steampowered.com/cgi-bin/steampowered.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=261

Squark · 7 Nov 2007 at 19:56

Here is a list of all the programs I have running which a re vaguely connected to the internet:

Windows Firewall
Avast 4.7 Home
Spybot 1.5
Spyware Blaster 3.5.1

TriedandTested · 7 Nov 2007 at 21:23

Squark said:
Here is a list of all the programs I have running which a re vaguely connected to the internet:

Windows Firewall
Avast 4.7 Home
Spybot 1.5
Spyware Blaster 3.5.1

That's nice. Did you read my links above, namely: "

This is typically caused by a bad Steam install or something got corrupted on your existing Steam installation.

The easiest fix for this problem is to delete this file (usual location):

c:\program files\valve\steam\clientregistry.blob"

Squark · 8 Nov 2007 at 00:39

I've tried installing numerous times, under several conditions, with several different installs.

I tried deleting that file, but it didn't seem to make any difference to me, but thanks.

ooh, something different, its now saying that it cant find steamUI.dll, probably because I manually gave it the steam.dll

Squark · 8 Nov 2007 at 17:39

Right, I've resigned myself to the conclusion that it isn't my computer.

I've tried every conceivable combination of software installation and setup, so it simply cannot be on my computer. I believe that whatever ports are required by steam they must be being blocked by the network I'm on here in my halls

So no HL for me until Christmas, where I can install everything at home. Hopefully once steam is up and running I'll be able to access games in offline mode.

Oh well,
Thanks to everyone for trying to help.