[SOLUTION] To Revert To Old UI

[Wikarian99PL]

Thanks to this post
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2967855237
by User
https://steamcommunity.com/id/lightwo

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Im on Win7, dont know exactly how the first steps will looks on newest Windows
In short

• Close completely Steam
  
• Create Shortcut for Steam.exe
  
• Right Click on Shortcut
  
• Properties
  
• Target (It should have path to original .exe file)
  I have "C:\Steam\steam.exe" or Default "C:\Program Files\Steam"
  
• Paste This in after Path from previous step (It will download old version of Steam)
  -forcesteamupdate -forcepackagedownload -overridepackageurl http://web.archive.org/web/20230531113527if_/media.steampowered.com/client -exitsteam
  
• Open Steam via Shortcut
  
• Wait until it finish update and will close
  
• Delete previously pasted code (remember to not delete path to .exe file)
  
• Open Steam Main Folder
  Default "C:\Program Files\Steam" or Your Location
  
• In this folder create File "steam.cfg" (.cfg Needs To Be File Extension, not steam.cfg.txt)
  
• Paste This in our "steam.cfg" File (It will prevent form Automatic Updates)
  BootStrapperInhibitAll=Enable
  BootStrapperForceSelfUpdate=False
  
• Open Steam, should looks normal again
  
  I think its everything
  It looks normally, dont know if every function on Steam will work
  If You want to again download Newest Version, delete "steam.cfg" from Main Steam Folder
  
  

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  Again, Special Thanks to lightwo
  

  lightwo の投稿を引用：

  Also, a note to anyone who wants to use the instructions as per the OP: if you don't use Windows, edit the URL to replace the date (after /web/, before if_) with one of these:
  

  • Linux: 20230531115543
    
  • macOS: 20230531120503

  
  
  And also Special Thanks to Radoo, from pinned comment below for other alternative solution

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Zach Fett の投稿を引用：

I would highly recommend people just block the obnoxious misinformation troll and stop giving them replies.

Unfortunately I'm not the one spreading the misinformation in this thread. It's other people. I'm trying my best to correct them to keep this thread on topic so it doesn't get shut down. If not for me the moderators might lock this thread for intentionally spreading misleading information. Surely no one wants this thread locked.

I'm still in shock that someone actually wrote a comment trying to tell people that using an outdated web browser for buying stuff online is safe. There's not a lot of words to explain how awful that is. :(

[MonkehMaster]

🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊 の投稿を引用：

Zach Fett の投稿を引用：

I would highly recommend people just block the obnoxious misinformation troll and stop giving them replies.

Unfortunately I'm not the one spreading the misinformation in this thread. It's other people. I'm trying my best to correct them to keep this thread on topic so it doesn't get shut down. If not for me the moderators might lock this thread for intentionally spreading misleading information. Surely no one wants this thread locked.

I'm still in shock that someone actually wrote a comment trying to tell people that using an outdated web browser for buying stuff online is safe. There's not a lot of words to explain how awful that is. :(

the mods arent going to lock this thread for some random nonsense you make up, sorry thats not how this works.

also i like how you threaten the people in this thread, of getting their thread locked, if you cant intentionally keep harassing them and everyone who joins the thread, or threatening others specifically.

not only have you been told several times, that those people dont care about your "security" preaching, but you were also told the versions (most are using) are no different than the current/latest version, thus there is no "security" issues.

and in case you didnt know it, steam has been using outdated CEF versions, for a very very long time and steam provides their own security fixes.

as for browsers, who cares... if someone wants to use an outdated browser, thats their choice and not yours.

anywho, the only person here posting misinformation is you.

[awg]

Erowind の投稿を引用：

awg の投稿を引用：

Didn't work for me. Can anyone who got this worked tell me how the complete command line should look like? To prevent updates and get friendslist work again?

It depends on your steam version. Even some later versions of vgui steam don't work with the command I think? Try downgrading a bit and see if that helps?

I haven't rolled back the version, though I found what Zach Fett has recommended. And it worked for me. Thank you to everyone who share useful information here.

[Hello My Name Is Inigo Montoya]

i didnt do that, proceeds to do that.
its a bold strategy Cotton, lets see if it pays off for him
you the Donald Trump of discussion. 👍

🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊 の投稿を引用：

VahidSlayerOfAll の投稿を引用：

🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊- its not me, i could not possibly be wrong! it must be everyone else on the discussion

I did not write that at all. Please do not make up things I did not write. That is extremely rude and completely uncalled for. It seems I'm the only "voice of reason" around here in this thread and even then when I write things that folks know are true they try hard to silence me. For some reason the people in this thread are repeatedly trying to pass off knowingly bad (and potentially harmful) tech advice to other people. If I didn't write some comments about the truth of the situation in here then everyone finding this thread would think the things stated in here are actually good and okay (they're not).

Using old versions of the steam client -> Potentially dangerous (note potentially .. as in "could be", not "is dangerous", I'm not stating a fact there, just a warning).

What is a fact though: Buying a game on steam using an old and outdated web browser -> *VERY DANGEROUS* + DO NOT EVER DO THIS FOR ANY REASON! NOT SAFE AT ALL!

[Creffy In Real]

Zach Fett の投稿を引用：

add this to your exe shortcut: -nofriendsui

for those looking for an actual solution without banter, this lets you join friends games even if the library page doesn't show them

[NSFW]

caubert の投稿を引用：

just commenting out the line with "version"parameter.

Comment with a single slash in front ?
Tested - and works with single slash in front of it.
Thanks.

I love this old school chat, it is awesome.
Even could manage to stay invisible, that is perfect.

[Mantha]

Zach Fett の投稿を引用：

Ginnypearl の投稿を引用：

yeah im probably not wording it right? im frustrated that i cant keep using the old UI because of it not connecting to friends ;w; i prefer it to this one but i use the chat function too much to not have it ;;

add this to your exe shortcut: -nofriendsui

When you say to add this to the shortcut, add it where, and how?

[MonkehMaster]

Mantha の投稿を引用：

Zach Fett の投稿を引用：

add this to your exe shortcut: -nofriendsui

When you say to add this to the shortcut, add it where, and how?

right click program, click properties, click in target name field (box with programs name in it), add a space at end of name, then paste in mentioned command.

you can string commands together as well, though they all need to be spaced from each other or they wont work, at least thats what i have seen, i wouldnt know the technical side all that well.

not sure if its the exe or the dll of steam? seen someone mention something about that when talking about a command to disable all steam connections for testing or to lock the client into a forced offline mode.

its basically the same thing you can do in steam with games (right click game name in steam library tab, click properties, paste commands (use commands that work on the engine the game uses) into "launch options" box in menu to the right) and then steam handles the commands, but in this case, you are doing it outside of steam and for the steam client itself.

you can do the same for games outside of steam, or steam games... simply search the engine the game uses and find the command list, some of them can help with performance, along with other stuff.

steam has a whole list of commands you can use, just search them up.

[VahidSlayerOfAll]

Mantha の投稿を引用：

Zach Fett の投稿を引用：

add this to your exe shortcut: -nofriendsui

When you say to add this to the shortcut, add it where, and how?

here but with the other text
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990359595

[Shinoskay]

VahidSlayerOfAll の投稿を引用：

Mantha の投稿を引用：

When you say to add this to the shortcut, add it where, and how?

here but with the other text
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990359595

why do I get the feeling that this is all a hilarious troll meme thats starting to get way out of hand?

[VahidSlayerOfAll]

Shinoskay の投稿を引用：

VahidSlayerOfAll の投稿を引用：

here but with the other text
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2990359595

why do I get the feeling that this is all a hilarious troll meme thats starting to get way out of hand?

Chiaotzu? just used the image cause both committed suicide without doing anything helpful for the people around them

[Mantha]

MonkehMaster の投稿を引用：

Mantha の投稿を引用：

When you say to add this to the shortcut, add it where, and how?

right click program, click properties, click in target name field (box with programs name in it), add a space at end of name, then paste in mentioned command.

So I did that, but I still get "Friends network unreachable" when I try to use Friends. Are there any other workarounds? I'm trying to look through this thread, but it's a bit of a mess.

[MonkehMaster]

Mantha の投稿を引用：

MonkehMaster の投稿を引用：

right click program, click properties, click in target name field (box with programs name in it), add a space at end of name, then paste in mentioned command.

So I did that, but I still get "Friends network unreachable" when I try to use Friends. Are there any other workarounds? I'm trying to look through this thread, but it's a bit of a mess.

ya, the thread has an issue with security atm

not sure, you will have to wait for someone else to answer, or sift through the thread.

[SexyPanther]

Mantha の投稿を引用：

MonkehMaster の投稿を引用：

right click program, click properties, click in target name field (box with programs name in it), add a space at end of name, then paste in mentioned command.

So I did that, but I still get "Friends network unreachable" when I try to use Friends. Are there any other workarounds? I'm trying to look through this thread, but it's a bit of a mess.

1. You need a version of the client that still allows -vgui
2. You need a .cfg file (mentioned in the OP post of this thread) in your installed Steam folder
3. You need to have -vgui as a launch parameter on your Steam shortcut
4. You need to have -nofriendsui as a launch parameter on your Steam shortcut (leave a space after -vgui and then enter that text)
5. In your Steam install folder, should be a folder called "package" - rename that folder to something else (I used "packag1")
6. If you launch Steam using all of this, you should have access to the client using the old UI and with a "light" version of friends.

The above is more or less what I have running right now.

Note 1: In your library, your friends will not display and you'll see something about "sign in". Ignore it. You can still message friends as well as game with them. One draw-back is the inability to use animated stickers and chat effects when sending friends messages, but meh.

Note 2: Make sure your .cfg file isn't just named with ".cfg" at the end, the actual file type needs to be read as such.

[Mantha]

SexyPanther の投稿を引用：

Mantha の投稿を引用：

So I did that, but I still get "Friends network unreachable" when I try to use Friends. Are there any other workarounds? I'm trying to look through this thread, but it's a bit of a mess.

1. You need a version of the client that still allows -vgui
2. You need a .cfg file (mentioned in the OP post of this thread) in your installed Steam folder
3. You need to have -vgui as a launch parameter on your Steam shortcut
4. You need to have -nofriendsui as a launch parameter on your Steam shortcut (leave a space after -vgui and then enter that text)
5. In your Steam install folder, should be a folder called "package" - rename that folder to something else (I used "packag1")
6. If you launch Steam using all of this, you should have access to the client using the old UI and with a "light" version of friends.

The above is more or less what I have running right now.

How do I obtain a version of the client that still allows -vgui? I followed all the steps in the original post, so I have whatever version of Steam that is. I also have the .cfg file. I tried putting -vgui as a launch parameter, but that hasn't done anything, so I assume the version of Steam from the original steps doesn't allow -vgui.