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    #1  Edited By matpaget

    So I just got home and Steam keeps closing for some reason. It usually happens when I go to a game's page, but it stopped when I went to the STALKER page a second time. Eventually it closed on The Binding of Isaac page again.

    Is this just one of Steam's quirks that will work itself out? I've already looked at the programs that may interfere with Steam, but I'm not running any of them.

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    #2  Edited By The_Laughing_Man

    Is it closing or CRASHING? 

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    #3  Edited By matpaget

    @The_Laughing_Man: Crashing would be a better word.

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    #4  Edited By The_Laughing_Man
    @MatPaget said:

    @The_Laughing_Man: Crashing would be a better word.

    Gonna say its the over loaded servers. 
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    #5  Edited By matpaget

    @The_Laughing_Man: Didn't happen for a little while. Then I realized it didn't happen at all at my dad's.

    It only crashes when I go to a game's page. Is that still the server overloading?

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    #6  Edited By Ravenlight

    Close Steam and open up your Task Manager and make sure the Steam.exe process isn't still running. If it is, kill it and restart Steam.

    I run into the same problem sometimes where Steam kind've half closes and doesn't run properly after.

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    #7  Edited By 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.

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