Steam locking up

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I played counter strike the other night no problems. I left steam and
came back a few minutes later but couldn't get steam to work. I get the
first menu up then press play games. The play games tab comes up on the
task bar below but the menu doesn't appear. When I CAD it says both are
'not responding'. I've rebooted several times and it doesn't help.

Any ideas on how to fix this? TIA

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Walter Mitty wrote:

> cloud dreamer wrote:
>
>> I played counter strike the other night no problems. I left steam and
>> came back a few minutes later but couldn't get steam to work.
>
>
> You should never have left her. Did you try flowers?


Ha! Sorry, last time I checked, I had no balls. Don't plan on growing
any either.

Don't suppose you can answer the question.....eh?....

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I've had problems with Steam crashing and locking up at times. I never knew
why it was happening but to fix it I had reinstall Steam each time. Give
that a shot and let us know...

Good luck.

Eric

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"DaveL" <dave1027@comcast.net> wrote in
news:LeKdnU2VzOQTEXjcRVn-3g@comcast.com:

> "Can't get steam to work" is rather vague. Any error
> messages? What happens when you start it?
>
> DaveL
>
>
> "cloud dreamer" <invalid@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:10ub1ephket33e4@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>>
>> Walter Mitty wrote:
>>
>> > cloud dreamer wrote:
>> >
>> >> I played counter strike the other night no problems. I
>> >> left steam and came back a few minutes later but
>> >> couldn't get steam to work.
>> >
>> >
>> > You should never have left her. Did you try flowers?
>>
>>
>> Ha! Sorry, last time I checked, I had no balls. Don't plan
>> on growing any either.
>>
>> Don't suppose you can answer the question.....eh?....
>>
>> ..
>>
>

She did, in her first post, just the resident genius walter
mitty chose to cut most of it for his oh so unfunny response.

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cloud dreamer wrote:
> I played counter strike the other night no problems. I left steam and
> came back a few minutes later but couldn't get steam to work. I get the
> first menu up then press play games. The play games tab comes up on the
> task bar below but the menu doesn't appear. When I CAD it says both are
> 'not responding'. I've rebooted several times and it doesn't help.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this? TIA
>
> ..
>

What happens when you right click the play games icon on the task bar?
Anything? It sounds like steam has got locked up doing an update. Do any
of the steam icons. Have you tried "exit" option form the steam task bar
option without selecting "play games".

As another poster suggested try deleting the clientregistry thingy. too.

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Walter Mitty wrote:

> cloud dreamer wrote:
>
>> I played counter strike the other night no problems. I left steam and
>> came back a few minutes later but couldn't get steam to work. I get
>> the first menu up then press play games. The play games tab comes up
>> on the task bar below but the menu doesn't appear. When I CAD it says
>> both are 'not responding'. I've rebooted several times and it doesn't
>> help.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to fix this? TIA
>>
>> ..
>>
>
> What happens when you right click the play games icon on the task bar?
> Anything? It sounds like steam has got locked up doing an update. Do any
> of the steam icons. Have you tried "exit" option form the steam task bar
> option without selecting "play games".
>
> As another poster suggested try deleting the clientregistry thingy. too.

Removing the clientregistry thingy worked. Next question...why?

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Ben Cottrell wrote:
> cloud dreamer wrote:
>
>> That worked. Thanks a bunch.
>>
>> Now I'm curious as to what that was and why it kept freezing the game...
>
>
> clientregistry.blob is a file that stores your login information,
> including the information needed for Offline mode.
>
> if that file somehow gets corrupted (it seems to happen quite often)
> then it will cause Steam to crash, since Steam relies on that info to
> authenticate you
>
> when you delete the file and login, Steam simply retrieves the
> authentication info again, and re-creates it.


Thanks. Very helpful.

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