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I know you said that you uninstalled every mb that is related to steam, but I recently had a problem with similar symptoms. Steam would flash that same popup and never open. My problem ended up being a corrupted file within the Steam\steamapps folder, and the partial reinstall as instructed on the page you linked did not fix it.
The file that was corrupted was one of the C:\Steam\steamapps\appmanifest_####.acf files. The appmanifest_####.acf files tell Steam the associated game is installed in the \\steamaps\common folder. They are not necessary for Steam to launch. What I did to fix my problem was to move (cut/paste) all the appmanifest_####.acf files to another folder. Then I launced Steam and it worked. After that I started moving the appmanifest_###.acf files back into the Steam\steamapps folder. I would put half of the files back into Steam\steamapps, then check that Steam still launched. If Steam still launced, then I would move more files. If Steam stopped launching I would CTRL+Z (undo) my last file move and verify Steam launched again. Through quick trial and error I was able to move all the appmanifest_####.acf files back into Steam\steamapps, except the corrupted one.
Note that if you remove the appmanifest_###.acf files Steam will not see a game you already have installed as installed. When you click install, Steam will discover existing files and not have to download the game all over again. That is only if you tell Steam to install the game into the same place the files already exist. I wanted to avoid the hassle of discovering existing files, so that's why I moved all the appmanifest_###.acf files back, except the one that made Steam not launch. Then I simply let Steam discover existing files for that one game.
A bit long winded, but I hope it helps you at least a little.