Half-Life 2/ Steam Problems

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Your best bet would be to check Steam's help and support page.

For your convenience, I've included a link that will take you to a help page
that may be of some use. (Ignore the fact that it's a "tiny url" - that's
only because this link would have been quite long otherwise).

http://www.tinyurl.com/87ljh

Hope that helps!

-Chris Poirier
MVP - MSN.com


"shadow_3423" <shadow_3423@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news 597240D-EFEB-4077-8862-8ADEAECD510B@microsoft.com...
>I just reinstalled WinXP and updated to SP2, now I can't connect to Steam
>to
> install HL2. Before when I had only WinXP and SP1, I was able to connect
> just
> fine. I have tried setting the Windows Firewall to allow Steam access.
> (Didn't work) Tried turning off the Firewall altogether (didn't work). Now
> trying to figure out how to forward the ports that Steam says they use,
> but I
> am getting confused. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks