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i have gotten that horrible little bug that doesnt allow for finished updating. this is too important for me so i decided to start a new thread.

as you all know i have been away on a long, great holiday and was looking forward to some CSS when i got back (today). but i knew, in the duration i was gone that i had missed quite a few updates.
so i click on the Steam shortcut and unsurprisingly it needs to update. but then it gets to 26% and says: Steam.exe (main exception); ERROR: Failed to delete Steam.exe, Win32 Error 5 "Access is Denied"

so i say to myself, no problem i have enocountered this before and fixed it. so i did what i did last time: delete the existing steam.exe and download a new one. i go to update and it comes up with the same error.
so i delete the steam.exe again and rename the 'steamtmp' to 'steam' and then open it up. doesnt finish updating. i try renaming the 'steamnew' but again no luck

i turn off all virus protection and firewall and try it again - it still refuses to work.
so i get a little more desperate.

i completely uninstall of all steam and download a brand new one. double click on the shortcut, updates, comes up with the error again.

so i get really angry and unistall everything of valve, steam, HL2, CSS, SDK, everything. i then go find my five HL2 CDs and put them in and install. after about an hour it is finished and steam goes to update. I desperately watch as the numbers reach '26%' and dissapear to show the same hated error message.

i have tried everything i can think of. i have poured over the steam support and read the same thing: ' get rid of spyware and it will work '. so i was wondering have any of you fixed this annoying problem? if so how?

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Get rid of your spyware then. Wouldn't that have been the first
thing you should have tried before removing everything? Unless
you did and didn't say it...

An easy way to get rid of spyware, with a spyware removal utility is to reboot in safemode. It'll stop all the spyware, adware, and virus' from running (for the most part) so when you do find stuff it can be deleted.

Also, if you ever try the last resort of uninstalling the program, take the time to go through the registry and get rid of the values there. Same goes with virus' too. People don't realize that even if you delete the actual virus there's probably an entry in your registry that will download it again.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

thanks alot ill try that

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"