Steam closes randomly

[Swtere]

If your on the internet that is an extremely bad idea

Only temporary to see if it fixed it, which it didnt. So now its back installed and the firewall is back on. It is the exact same problem though, it said failed to poke through firewall when there was no firewall present.

[Gung Pow Chicken]

What anti-virus are you using?

[Swtere]

What anti-virus are you using?

Well now im most likely going to install microsoft security essentials or whatever its called

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Well now im most likely going to install microsoft security essentials or whatever its called

try using avast teamed with malwarebytes 

[Swtere]

try using avast teamed with malwarebytes 

Will do, but before i do im going to keep trying to fix Steam, either that or just resort to piracy

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Will do, but before i do im going to keep trying to fix Steam, either that or just resort to piracy

How did the repair work?

[Swtere]

How did the repair work?

It didn't lol

[Gung Pow Chicken]

Run Heaven and see how it preforms

[Scheknul]

Hey guys, does Steam.exe ever just close it's self? No crash report, nothing? Well, I've compiled a short list of things you can do, short of re-installing it altogether.

 

Try doing these things, one by one. Make sure that steam is off (check task manager). After each step, re-launch steam again.

 

1: Delete ClientRegistry.blob (Found in your steam folder). If you can not find it, use the search function with in the steam folder. C:\Program Files\Steam

 

2: Delete everything, except steam.exe and steamapps folder.

 

3: Delete Appcashe.

 

4: Defrag hard disk.

 

5: Optimize the space on hard disk.

 

Keep in mind: this isn't an all at once thing. You need to do them one by one. Do a step, re-launch steam. Wait to see if steam closes it's self, or even crashes. Do the next thing, etc.

 

This is most of what valve will tell you to do in an error/ticket report. Short of deleting things from your actual registry. NO ONE should mess with their windows registry, unless you know exactly what it is that you're deleting. If you don't know, have a friend do it for you. Deleting the wrong thing from any part of your windows registry can, and will corrupt windows. I've seen people delete system 32 before, and it made me laugh inside. However, it's no laughing matter to have to re-install windows. So, just be cautious.