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Old 02-09-07   #1 (permalink)
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Default Steam not working in Vista

Happening for anyone else? Have in it set to run in xp SP2, but still freezing while trying to load the steam platform.
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opening and closing it a little. Mine updated... then updated.. then updated some more, seems ok now. until i closed it and re-opened it a few times i had problems
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thats why you dual-boot with XP... Vista is amazing, but not for last-gen games...
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This happened to me in vista - what I did was I REMOVED steam from the exceptions list in windows firewall and then I ADDED it again myself. Started up steam and it loaded up instantly.
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Im Fine. Generally restarting it will fix it.
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try maybe deleting the clientreg.blob file?...seems to fix every other problem
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clientreg.blob seems tto be making it fail. I delete it but once it updates to 26% it comes back and steam stops again

EDIT: IT WORKS NOW!!!Just clicked it today and when itgot to 26% it minimized and came back up and went all the way
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