Just some problems I had & the solutions I found with steam, For future users.

It says its converting my old hl content into steam, But it doesnt seem to be doing anything

Im gonna be honest with you, for most people this bit crashes, give it quite a lot of time if you can though. Otherwise its cntrl+alt+del time.

When I start a game of hl, It finishes preparing. Then starts to open & then instantly closes

Add -window #800 to your launch options change your video settings appy & then remove the window line from your launch options.

I am seeing #SteamRoot. on my buttons

In your steam folder there is a file called clientregistry.blob (not affiliated with mr.blobby) delete this, restart steam. It will update. now restart your comp

When I connect to a server, It tells me something about my steamID ticket

Go to your settings, Log out. wait 2 mins. Log back in.

I disconnected before I had finished downloading a game via steam, It told me to abort/retry, What do I do?

It really doesnt matter, reconnect/retry. If steam errors close it & open it again, check monitor & your download should continue.

My download seems to have stopped, But the file is not 100% finished

Exit steam, Reload it back up. Check monitor, It should have continued.

When I use the cntrl+alt+shift+b method to edit my skin, Clicking save just crashes

That doesnt work yet, Youl have to take the info & enter it into your .res file manually to edit the skin.

It says my game is currently unavailable

Go to settings, Log out. Then log back in.

After a while my steam seems to have made my comp go very slow

Restart your pc & possibly log out of steam.

My comp continues to be slow & I cant shut steam down without it telling me there are no children registered

Dunno what to tell you, Im experiencing this atm

Has anybody ever ran steam with no problems at all? ever?

Scary_Jeff, Give him a medal/slap, Which ever you prefer.

I hate steam

Tell me about it :/

The only problem I have with Steam is I can not join a DoD server it just says

You were disconnected from the server
Reason: Timed Out

No matter what server it is and no matter how many times I retry it keeps saying that.

I can connect on everything else and usually get it on the first server I try after rebooting and then it workes fine but for DoD it just never stops

I think he was on about the suggestion to turn it into a tutorial, aze. unless of course you were being sarcastic, which wouldnt surprise me at all  :P

oh, and continuing the trend.

considering you all lost me again.. let me reitterate..

if steam is chaotic at best, i think in the short term a tut of some sort might be in order, cause... we all know how f**king tedious it gets answering the same question 100 times

but i bow to the majority, but no bitching later when this arises again...