Can i delete steam without uninstalling any of the games currently installed?

[Rugged]

As the title said.

[Rugged]

I wanna reinstall it by the way, so it will have to be deleted but i'm not sure if the games will stay.

[Cathulhu]

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

[Rugged]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

Alright, thanks!

[ty-tyy|MaxPain]

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[Puppyy <3]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

am i able to do this and move the .exe to another drive? im currently cleaning my ssd and want to reinstall steam on my hard drive

[Cathulhu]

Sure, you can move the whole Steam folder if you want.

[Laced]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

Hi, I know this thread is old but where do I find the steam.exe folder?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Kyiokee:

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

Hi, I know this thread is old but where do I find the steam.exe folder?

It’s where you installed steam so it’s probably

C:program files/steam

[Ryze]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

Thank you this fixed my steam friends connection issue

[COCO]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

tnx

[Moondredge]

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[sssawfish]

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

Thank you so much! Was dealing with a massive problem and worried I was gonna have to reinstall or move TB worth of games. Good thing I just did this and now Steam works like a charm again.

[Iceira]

As long you dont need the other steam userdata you just wiped,
other save game some game devs use that place inside steam folder and icon and shortcut blank icon, thats the problem here with steam old advice. ( this post is 5 years old ) steam userdata with other things might be wiped this way. ( learn to rename steam folder to steam.old folder might save your butt if you need userdata )

This is not a critic of old advice this is steam and userdata and storage of it that has been learn down the timeline, depend on what user has or what game a game devs did save and other userdata.

ps.
worst part none other seem to catch or change old advice issue with it, and its still user own problem for not have backup of it, and why rename it is a better way to try catch own mistake with old steam folder.


ps.
Google steam flushconfig, maybe that can fix it also. thing has change and we all know it, this is the problem with old post, but as always back to basic if all fail.

[mehr]

Yes, uninstalling Steam traditionally will remove your games.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Cleanly_reinstalling_Steam
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3C73-90F9-F600-0266

Originally posted by Cathulhu:

Yes, but there is an even easier way to achieve what you are planning.

Reinstalling is very easy. Go into the Steam folder and delete every besides the Steam.exe and the steamapps folder. Keep those two.
The steamapps folder contains all your games.

After that is done, start the Steam.exe and Steam will rebuild itself. That is essentially a reinstall.

You can try this method above, and see if your problem persists.


Though, I would recommend you do it per Valve's instruction in the second link and move out the steamapps (and where else your library exists, such as other drives) folder during the uninstall. The proper uninstall process is in that link too.

PLEASE, also remember to keep the files in the folders in /userdata/######/760 -- these are your local Steam screenshots and it'd suck if you lost those memories.

[PirateAlg]

i moved steam to another drive with the games and everything is fine, but "Steamworks Common redistributable" keeps spawning on the old path
any ideas?