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Posted by Gwil on Sun Jan 14th at 1:36am 2007

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"No limits, after your 3-day trial is over you can simply apply for a new one, and continue to do so forever!"
How could you think else reaper?


damn!

But honestly, I just thought more about whether if I get a guest pass for DOD:S, for example (and use it) this means I cannot guest-pass play any other game for the coming 6 months. Which, since I already did 2 free weeks for DOD:S means I shouldn't have taken the DOD:S and should have waited for another game that sounds more interesting instead.

Which isn't really that important.

At all.


Hilarious, your double team.

The full FAQ states through all answers that a guest pass can be sent to one person, and is usable within a certain limit of days - clearly outlined as being activated from when it is started/activated.

Read the page I posted again, even with English as a second language, the purview of a guest pass is clearly explained.




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Posted by reaper47 on Sun Jan 14th at 1:43pm 2007

These all were excuses for being lazy *blushes*


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jan 15th at 3:22pm 2007

I scanned through the Steam forums to no avail. yeah some had a similar condition, but no one pinned down the fix.

I then tried to repair the program through the control panel.. No go.
I then tried downloading Steam again and allowing it to fix it... It updated then quit, again.

I have now un-installed it, and used a registry cleaner to remove the last bits. Wish me luck as I re-install.

[EDIT] GOD f**kING DAMMIT!
Steam still refuses. smiley

I dunno what else to do.



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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Jan 15th at 4:10pm 2007

That sounds very sucky. You sure it's not a firewall blocking Steam? I had a lot of troubles with the Windows firewall, which seems to be more restrictive and seemingly auto-activates itself even when my other (proper) firewall is just out of date with it's updates. I marked HL2 as a friendly program but it still blocked all its Internet traffic every few seconds resulting in horrendous lags. It's a bit different but I searched for months to find a fix for this and would have never thought it was the windows firewall (which I set up to run Steam and HL2 freely).

just something to consider...


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jan 15th at 4:12pm 2007

Steam worked fine until the update last week. I reinstalled it and it updated. BUT after it finished, the program still borked out.

Could a windows firewall allow it to update, but not load?

How do I check the windows firewall setting?

[EDIT] I turned off windows firewall. Steam still borked.



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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Jan 15th at 4:24pm 2007

It's a shield-shaped icon in the control panel called "security center".

Whenever Steam.exe is updated (changed), the security settings for it are reset (to unknown/dangerous) I think. At least I think so. Also check and double-check your own firewall, of course. It sounds very much like a firewall problem (which doesn't mean it is <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> ).


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jan 15th at 5:25pm 2007

UPDATE:
OK this is what I have done, in no particular order...

  • Tried to patch Steam.
  • Tried reinstalling over the previous Steam.
  • Uninstalled Steam.
  • Re-installed Steam.
  • Uninstalled Zone Alarm.
  • Disconnected my modem and used another.
  • Disconnected my router.
  • Shut off Windows Firewall.
  • Searched the Steam forums.


All to no avail.
I currently am running with FireFox, no router and no firewalls. My machine is wide open and still Steam fails to load.

Anyone have any clues????



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Posted by azelito on Mon Jan 15th at 8:20pm 2007

Sell your soul to Satan.



"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98



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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Jan 15th at 8:41pm 2007

I'm not sure whether this was included in the already done list but:

In zoneAlarm, open the main window, click "Program control" on the left, then select the "Programs" tab. There should be a huge list already but you can also add programs manually.

See if that list has one (or two) entries for Steam.exe. Klick "custom" and set trusted level to "super", klick and allow all kinds of access. There can be two entries for 1 program, so make sure they're all allowed and open. Maybe restart windows, also.

I had a few problem with these program control settings.

PS: Make sure virus and firewall definitions are updated in zoneAlarm. I think Windows Firewall runs almost mandatory if there's anything not up to date.

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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jan 15th at 9:44pm 2007

? quoting Orpheus
UPDATE:
OK this is what I have done
  • Uninstalled Zone Alarm.


I currently am running with FireFox, no router and no firewalls.

/me continues crying piteously.





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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Jan 15th at 11:37pm 2007

The strange thing is that Windows Firewall seems to activate itself automatically, even if you think you de-activated it. This was my problem. So Installing Zone-Alarm and checking its Program control settings possibly results in a different outcome than not running a Firewall at all.

That's what I was thinking of.


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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Jan 15th at 11:47pm 2007

So if I understand your point, Windows firewall could be turning itself back on after I shut it down?

How would I assure its off then?





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Posted by reaper47 on Tue Jan 16th at 11:03am 2007

Uninstall Windows XP

But honestly, I'm not an IT expert. This is very vague speculation based on random experiences. Probably I'm wrong. I just had a problem with Source that could be solved by doing what I described, so there's a 2% chance it could help with Steam, also.

No guarantees. Maybe your Windows Firewall is off and I'm talking nonsense. image


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Posted by amanderino on Tue Jan 16th at 10:53pm 2007

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So if I understand your point, Windows firewall could be turning itself back on after I shut it down?
How would I assure its off then?

Control Panel>Windows Firewall
I've never seen it switch back and forth.

I finally got around to uninstalling my Steam. I cleared up 9.3gb on C. I'm going to reinstall it on the 250gb HDD whenever I get the patience to go through the install. Hopefully, everything will work out when I reinstall.

EDIT: I got everything back. Yay!!



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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Jan 16th at 11:43pm 2007

UPDATE: I ran 4 spyware programs and trend housecall, Steam failed to load.
I ran AVG, steam loaded.

I dunno exactly what it found, but apparently it was some virus or AVG wouldn't have resolved it.

Sadly, I cannot find any of my disks to reinstall any of my games. At least I cannot find them before I leave for California.

The good news is, Steam is back up and running. Tis a real shame I didn't run AVG before I uninstalled everything.

Oh well. image

[EDIT] I am wondering, Steam gives me the option of downloading the games. You think it would remember me and just add the product codes to each game?

It might take me forever to locate my product codes with all the boxes I have stacked around here. smiley



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Posted by fishy on Wed Jan 17th at 12:12am 2007

? quoting Orpheus

[EDIT] I am wondering, Steam gives me the option of downloading the games. You think it would remember me and just add the product codes to each game?

It might take me forever to locate my product codes with all the boxes I have stacked around here.

i've never had to enter any product codes. any time that i've reinstalled steam, it knows what games i'm entitled to, as soon as i log in.




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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 17th at 12:16am 2007

GREAT!!!

God Fishman, I hope you're right. I lost or misplaced so much after the fire.

Thanx, you made my day.



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Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 17th at 2:20am 2007

This has always been the case with steam. "Go to any computer and access your games through steam" ring a bell?


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 17th at 2:29am 2007

Honestly? No. I don't doubt you but I never thought about it. Till this time, I have never had trouble with Steam. None at all.

Even now I am wondering. The file it said had a virus, had been on my machine for months. Still, I don't care as long as Steam is working again.





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Posted by MJ on Sat Jan 20th at 12:22am 2007

that last steam update fux0red my steam, cant even load steam now on this comp


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