STEAM GAMES AUTO UNINSTALLING THEMSELVES!

[cl0ne]

so i rarely shut my pc down but when i do sometimes and i open my steam,my steams games start installing again when i never uninstalled them in the first place,no downloads just reinstall

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Either incorrectly shut Steam down, or Steam fail to read certain files that tells it what installed, and etc, check the link below. Are your games install on external drive?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3352-RYON-4107

[bryan]

same thing happens to me, but it just finds the files from before. You just have to exit the game your playing before you shut it down.

[cl0ne]

Originally posted by bryan:

same thing happens to me, but it just finds the files from before. You just have to exit the game your playing before you shut it down.

i do exit the game before i shut it down

[cl0ne]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Either incorrectly shut Steam down, or Steam fail to read certain files that tells it what installed, and etc, check the link below. Are your games install on external drive?

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3352-RYON-4107

my steam is not installed in external no but i never quit steam before i shut down my pc

[Cathulhu]

Then maybe you should gracefully shut down Steam before it is forcefully terminated on shutdown which can cause data corruption.

[Smash Palace]

At least your games stop playing. Apparently i'm playing morrowind right now, and have been for the last day or so.
Even with a computer restart everytime i log back into steam morrowind is still running and wont shut down.

[cl0ne]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Then maybe you should gracefully shut down Steam before it is forcefully terminated on shutdown which can cause data corruption.

It never happened before,started happening just a few days back

[cl0ne]

Originally posted by Smash Palace:

At least your games stop playing. Apparently i'm playing morrowind right now, and have been for the last day or so.
Even with a computer restart everytime i log back into steam morrowind is still running and wont shut down.

Dude my games get uninstalled and i have to install them all over again..imagine having to install a whole game every time u wanna play if :(

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Hory Shet:

Originally posted by Smash Palace:

At least your games stop playing. Apparently i'm playing morrowind right now, and have been for the last day or so.
Even with a computer restart everytime i log back into steam morrowind is still running and wont shut down.

Dude my games get uninstalled and i have to install them all over again..imagine having to install a whole game every time u wanna play if :(

Then there's other issues at play.

This can commonly be either hard drive failure or something like your antivirus suite blocking stuff.

Your best bet is to first check your antivurs suite to see what exceptions there are and if anything's being blocked. Then find out if your hard drive's giving up by first doing some instensive hard drive tests. Let it run for a couple of hours and see what it reports back.

If that comes back with issues, it should ask you to quaratine those areas so you can continue. In which case, do so, but start getting data off that drive as soon as possible.

[cl0ne]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by Hory Shet:

Dude my games get uninstalled and i have to install them all over again..imagine having to install a whole game every time u wanna play if :(

Then there's other issues at play.

This can commonly be either hard drive failure or something like your antivirus suite blocking stuff.

Your best bet is to first check your antivurs suite to see what exceptions there are and if anything's being blocked. Then find out if your hard drive's giving up by first doing some instensive hard drive tests. Let it run for a couple of hours and see what it reports back.

If that comes back with issues, it should ask you to quaratine those areas so you can continue. In which case, do so, but start getting data off that drive as soon as possible.

ok so its working fine since etoday morning,idk what happened

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Hory Shet:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Then there's other issues at play.

This can commonly be either hard drive failure or something like your antivirus suite blocking stuff.

Your best bet is to first check your antivurs suite to see what exceptions there are and if anything's being blocked. Then find out if your hard drive's giving up by first doing some instensive hard drive tests. Let it run for a couple of hours and see what it reports back.

If that comes back with issues, it should ask you to quaratine those areas so you can continue. In which case, do so, but start getting data off that drive as soon as possible.

ok so its working fine since etoday morning,idk what happened

Are you using an external hard drive? This can sometimes happen if Windows craps out, or drivers get corrupter. It usually sorts itself out next reboot.

Keep an eye on things though, because if this repeats it could be that your hard drive is failing, in which case do exactly as I said.

Google for an intenisve hard drive checker - not one that takes a couple of minutes to scan, but one that takes a couple of hours to work through. Let it run, and go and do something else. When you come back and it's finished, it will give you a report and ask you to quarantine any problem areas. Do so, and then all the data that is OK, get it off the drive as quick as you can or risk losing it.

Keep an eye on your antivirus too. If you see programs randomly disappeaing, they can be falsely flagged by antivirus, so always check in the blocked programs in the antivirus suite.

[cl0ne]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by Hory Shet:

ok so its working fine since etoday morning,idk what happened

Are you using an external hard drive? This can sometimes happen if Windows craps out, or drivers get corrupter. It usually sorts itself out next reboot.

Keep an eye on things though, because if this repeats it could be that your hard drive is failing, in which case do exactly as I said.

Google for an intenisve hard drive checker - not one that takes a couple of minutes to scan, but one that takes a couple of hours to work through. Let it run, and go and do something else. When you come back and it's finished, it will give you a report and ask you to quarantine any problem areas. Do so, and then all the data that is OK, get it off the drive as quick as you can or risk losing it.

Keep an eye on your antivirus too. If you see programs randomly disappeaing, they can be falsely flagged by antivirus, so always check in the blocked programs in the antivirus suite.

thanks but everything seems to be working fine now,if it ever happens again i'll do that

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by KITENegrophos:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Are you using an external hard drive? This can sometimes happen if Windows craps out, or drivers get corrupter. It usually sorts itself out next reboot.

Keep an eye on things though, because if this repeats it could be that your hard drive is failing, in which case do exactly as I said.

Google for an intenisve hard drive checker - not one that takes a couple of minutes to scan, but one that takes a couple of hours to work through. Let it run, and go and do something else. When you come back and it's finished, it will give you a report and ask you to quarantine any problem areas. Do so, and then all the data that is OK, get it off the drive as quick as you can or risk losing it.

Keep an eye on your antivirus too. If you see programs randomly disappeaing, they can be falsely flagged by antivirus, so always check in the blocked programs in the antivirus suite.

thanks but everything seems to be working fine now,if it ever happens again i'll do that

Just a last tip for the future -

If it does this behaviour: works fine, then has this occasional hiccup when your bott up, then next time back to normal and so on, assume you have a failing hardrive and start to get your important stuff off there asap.