[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
  

  Messaggio originale di lightwo:

  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

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Messaggio originale di rymes:

If i want to temporarily use voice chat is there an easy way to use current version and then revert back to old UI again? or can i use both new and old clients at same time?

Just use discord. Steam's audio system has always been inferior to discord anyway. I don't know why anyone would ever use voice in steam when we have discord.

[Basan™]

Messaggio originale di Silverkite:

Messaggio originale di <color=#ffa500>dispenser6257 :3:

wait, you guys do use voice chat?

always used TS2 and avoided skype or other means such as discord with a passion

Been a TS3 Client user for several years and it was way more efficient than forking Discord's eye candy, bloatware like handling. On that I thoroughly agree.

And also avoided using Skype from ever since it was acquired by Micro$oft (M$) because before that used it for work related stuff because at that time was upon a multinational and back then it was an efficient VoIP program. Now... god forbid the bloatware it has become (i.e, and I'm not even considering that always tries to force you into making an M$ account.

[bidulless]

Messaggio originale di 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Messaggio originale di rymes:

If i want to temporarily use voice chat is there an easy way to use current version and then revert back to old UI again? or can i use both new and old clients at same time?

Just use discord. Steam's audio system has always been inferior to discord anyway. I don't know why anyone would ever use voice in steam when we have discord.

hello

Finally we are full of contradictions xd

I do not want to use the steam browser because it's insecure , i prefere using my browser and i prefer to use the voice chat system of steam instead of discord. I do not feel the need to use my email and run another tools for that when steam is able to do it natively

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Messaggio originale di bidulless:

I do not feel the need to use my email and run another tools for that when steam is able to do it natively

That doesn't change the facts that Steam's voice chat *IS* inferior to discord still. I have tried talking to friends on steam and the audio quality is awful and not clear most of the time where as it's almost always perfectly clear on discord in comparison. I always use discord and only discord for voice chat with someone on the internet as it does have the best audio quality in my experience.

[tyl0413]

Messaggio originale di lsdninja:

Messaggio originale di tyl0413:

Also yes copying a logged in install folder by default gives full access to the account, even if those files are removed various other identifying files are all over the place so while it is possible to get rid of them it's just much easier to use the force update server launch option.

The fact that Steam still keeps stuff like this in a "public" folder in 2023 is mind numbingly stupid in itself, but even stupider is the only reason they do the "right" think on Linux and possibly macOS is because those platforms give them no choice in the matter...

For all that talk about Steam Guard being unhackable it really seems easy to just take the files responsible for remembering the login state and get in that way. I suspect after the classic fake login pages the second most popular way of stealing accounts is by malware that does just that.

Messaggio originale di lsdninja:

Messaggio originale di Rose:

or maybe cause they don't consider something like someone uploading their steam folder so that others could download it

No, they're taking advantage of the fact that virtually no one on WIndows in the consumer space uses more than a single user account as an excuse to be lazy.

They do actually detect multi-user though and prompt for login on another account.

Messaggio originale di rymes:

If i want to temporarily use voice chat is there an easy way to use current version and then revert back to old UI again? or can i use both new and old clients at same time?

Maybe I don't remember right but didn't old chat used to have voice because I run it right now and it's not there. Also you can use the new chat in your Steam Overlay browser.

Messaggio originale di Mountain Months:

Messaggio originale di rymes:

If i want to temporarily use voice chat is there an easy way to use current version and then revert back to old UI again? or can i use both new and old clients at same time?

people use voice chat in steam? you know discord is a thing right

Discord needs to die already, way more so than the Steam redesign.

[Hello My Name Is Inigo Montoya]

ok now thats just not true. who would you possibly talk to?
ive seen the way you treat people on steam. Gollum voice-you dont have any friends, nobody likes you.

Messaggio originale di 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Messaggio originale di bidulless:

I do not feel the need to use my email and run another tools for that when steam is able to do it natively

That doesn't change the facts that Steam's voice chat *IS* inferior to discord still. I have tried talking to friends on steam and the audio quality is awful and not clear most of the time where as it's almost always perfectly clear on discord in comparison. I always use discord and only discord for voice chat with someone on the internet as it does have the best audio quality in my experience.

[VahidSlayerOfAll]

Messaggio originale di 🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊:

Messaggio originale di rymes:

If i want to temporarily use voice chat is there an easy way to use current version and then revert back to old UI again? or can i use both new and old clients at same time?

Just use discord. Steam's audio system has always been inferior to discord anyway. I don't know why anyone would ever use voice in steam when we have discord.

ahh yes even more bloatware....pass. far better programs for voice chat

[Basan™]

Messaggio originale di Rose:

Messaggio originale di lsdninja:

Similar to what Linux and possibly macOS already force them to and what has been the standard for multi-user environments for decades: keep these files somewhere under a users home folder.

and what would that help with?

Improving the Steam's Windows version security for starters. And that's simply because everyhting that's inside the user's folder is harder to get access into because those are protected folder by default and can't easily be accessed and thus preventing manipulation and/or data mining/stealing (except if you're also an Admin' upon that Windows OS).

[Infin1e]

Some people really should stop responding here, like Inigo Montoya. If you can't contribute anything useful to this discussion, don't spread hatred.

[Infin1e]

Messaggio originale di Basan™:

Improving the Steam's Windows version security for starters. And that's simply because everyhting that's inside the user's folder is harder to get access into because those are protected folder by default and can't easily be accessed and thus preventing manipulation and/or data mining/stealing (except if you're also an Admin' upon that Windows OS).

huh, then valve could do that

[lsdninja]

Messaggio originale di Rose:

huh, then valve could do that

They do. On Linux and possibly macOS (I really have to check this out at some point, but I'm in no hurry to install Steam on my Mini when it only has the stock 1TB SSD) as well, because those platforms enforce user separation more vigorously than Windows does (since it's still accounting for the bad practices it allowed 30-odd years ago).

The same laziness is why macOS is also the only platform with a 64-bit clean version of the Steam client (since Apple dropped support for 32-bit applications in Catalina) and why there's still no Apple Silicon native version of Steam yet (since Apple still allow Intel applications for now).

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Messaggio originale di Hello My Name Is Inigo Montoya:

ok now thats just not true. who would you possibly talk to?
ive seen the way you treat people on steam. Gollum voice-you dont have any friends, nobody likes you.

I mainly use discord for tech support calls for people / customers that I've built computers for in the past more than anything (work stuff). Also you can see on my profile I do have a lot of steam friends.

[Basan™]

Messaggio originale di Rose:

Some people really should stop responding here, like Inigo Montoya. If you can't contribute anything useful to this discussion, don't spread hatred.

Although I do agree with your accessment that most of us really should ignore AquaFawks's needless commenting upon this thread like I tend to do, your comment right there can also be considered as back seat moderation. A thing that, highly alas, he also excels at.

So, as a mere improvement suggestion let's all 1st try to set the role model by example, instead of reacting to every baseless statemnet that that sort of users has been trying to spout into this very thread since it has now been glaringly visible that Valve won't enforce any rules in here that may actually come midly across as agreeing with this thread's subject. Even if those 2 things are should be clearly spread apart even according to Valve's moderation standards inside Steam's forums.

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Messaggio originale di Basan™:

Although I do agree with your accessment that most of us really should ignore AquaFawks's needless commenting upon this thread like I tend to do, your comment right there can also be considered as back seat moderation. A thing that, highly alas, he also excels at.

Unfortunately Backseat Moderating isn't a rule that can be violated or broken in the steam forums any more. Harassment is. I'm half tempted to report your comment there. "Calling out" someone in public like that is pretty damn rude. :(

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Messaggio originale di Basan™:

Messaggio originale di Rose:

Some people really should stop responding here, like Inigo Montoya. If you can't contribute anything useful to this discussion, don't spread hatred.

Although I do agree with your accessment that most of us really should ignore AquaFawks's needless commenting upon this thread like I tend to do, your comment right there can also be considered as back seat moderation. A thing that, highly alas, he also excels at.

So, as a mere improvement suggestion let's all 1st try to set the role model by example, instead of reacting to every baseless statemnet that that sort of users has been trying to spout into this very thread since it has now been glaringly visible that Valve won't enforce any rules in here that may actually come midly across as agreeing with this thread's subject. Even if those 2 things are should be clearly spread apart even according to Valve's moderation standards inside Steam's forums. :baa:

but, i love having someone i can reply to with "i aint readin allat"