I can't boot steam

[General_Norris]

So, some days ago I played TF2 in the morning. By the aftetrnoon Steam didn't boot and I had to reinstall three or four times for it to boot. After that it ran fine and today it's not working again. It doesn't even appear when I boot the computer and I have not changed anything since yesterday.

If I click a lot on the icon I can see the process or a very brief moment but then dissapears. I tried to reinstall and nothing happens.

So, what can I do? This is driving me mad.

 

[The Political Gamer]

Delete clientregistry.blob

 

[lana]

Check the task manager and see if the process is running. If it is, kill it and start it again.

 

[DjD]

Check the task manager and see if the process is running. If it is, kill it and start it again.

Killing would be a bit harsh, first try to ask the process kindly to quit itself before you take drastic action.

 

[General_Norris]

It doesn't appear in the process tab, if I click it very fast I will see it for a milisecond before dissapearing so it's terminating.

I also tried to delete the client registry but it didn't work.

 

[Nutomic]

delete all files in your steam folder except steam.exe and the steamapps folder, steam will download everything.

 

[General_Norris]

delete all files in your steam folder except steam.exe and the steamapps folder, steam will download everything.

I did that and it didn't work.

But it created two files: ClientRegistry.blob and a crash dump file. This means that there's some kind of error but, as I thought, Steam boots.

 

[General_Norris]

All right it works again. I just repeated the same process and it worked for some reason.

Thanks everybody.