steam not allowing shutdown on windows 7

[Castile]

Pretty straight forward provlem i'm having. Until recently i had steam setup to start on system startup. Because i use steam so much i never bothered to think about this setting until very recently. Recently though i've started to find that when steam starts up and starts checking for updates that it tends to get stuck and freeze somewhere in the background. This has been happening offten and has lead to a rather interesting problem when i try to shutdown Windows 7. That is to say that windows 7 can't seem to finish it's shutdown while steam is in this state even if you try to force shutdown..

This has been happening quite frequantly and in hopes of preventing it further i've dissabled steam from running on system startup. I think what's going on is that steam is trying to startup before my wireless card connects to the router and that my steam client is getting stuck while trying to talk to the servers and not getting the responce it wants at the time it wants. Another interesting feature of this bug is that no matter how many times i try to click the steam icon on my start bar that it can neither be used to shutdown steam nor bring up the client.

That last problem is easy enough to fix useing task manager but it's really starting to cause me some concern as to the health of my steamclient that something it did untill about a month ago just fine.. is now causing some pretty messed up problems.. any thoughts on how I could perhaps imrpove the "health" of the steam client on my pc?

[Tev]

I wouldn't shut down the computer while Steam is running to begin with. i.e. written as one of the causes of this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998

To ensure that you do not encounter this issue, always allow Steam to close properly when shutting down your computer. Allowing Windows to force Steam to close when it is writing to a hard drive may cause Steam library and installation information to become corrupted.

Whereas as far as this goes,

Postat inițial de Accrsd:

Another interesting feature of this bug is that no matter how many times i try to click the steam icon on my start bar that it can neither be used to shutdown steam nor bring up the client.

This isn't normal, and I can do that fine on my Win 7.

Try this (as is instructed i.e. here,)

1. Exit Steam (Top left: [Steam > Exit])
   
2. Go to ... (or wherever you've installed Steam)

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\

3. DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT
   
   • Steam.exe
     
   • steamapps -folder
     
   • userdata -folder
4. Restart Steam

See if the problem is still present.

[Castile]

ok well i did what you suggested and deleted everything except for the files you exempted and after the reinstall steam is working well. I had to restart the computer to make sure since that's where the freeze that causes the issue of not being able to use the pinned steam icon starts.. and at the very least this first time booted up just fine and didn't get stuck... allthough interesting side note.. now Nvidia share is about causing windows to crash right after boot.. but that's something to deal with over on their forums.

[Shivian]

Postat inițial de Teutep:

I wouldn't shut down the computer while Steam is running to begin with. i.e. written as one of the causes of this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8379-RYIP-2998

To ensure that you do not encounter this issue, always allow Steam to close properly when shutting down your computer. Allowing Windows to force Steam to close when it is writing to a hard drive may cause Steam library and installation information to become corrupted.

Whereas as far as this goes,

Postat inițial de Accrsd:

Another interesting feature of this bug is that no matter how many times i try to click the steam icon on my start bar that it can neither be used to shutdown steam nor bring up the client.

This isn't normal, and I can do that fine on my Win 7.

Try this (as is instructed i.e. here,)

1. Exit Steam (Top left: [Steam > Exit])
   
2. Go to ... (or wherever you've installed Steam)

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\

3. DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT
   
   • Steam.exe
     
   • steamapps -folder
     
   • userdata -folder
4. Restart Steam

See if the problem is still present.

Sorry but that's not actually a valid way to program. All Windows programs should gracefully handle shutdown requests. Users should DEFINITELY not have to manage background downloading programs. That's just shoddy coding.

Steam must immediately pause the download or abort it and close. That's what the shutdown event is for and how it is supposed you be handled.

This is even more important for programs that load on start and sit idle on the systray. That you think otherwise shows how little you know about coding.

If you can't tell I'm very annoyed by this issue and your response.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Postat inițial de manatails:

Is there any known solution or workaround for this yet, people blindly declaring "this is not a steam problem" are just cancerous, this IS a steam problem, they are not properly handling subprocesses.

It's obviously not a steam problem if you had to necro this when it only had 4 posts anyways.

[Iceira]

Ask suggest to add option , after DL exit steam.


all this is still steam faulth, Download Restiction and option has been neglected over apox 2 decads,

dont forget all other here, cant understand you then, they dont get it , shutdown steam then DL is done, its that simple.

you have steam devs with no brain and all of user that dont get it.

this is same as reboot pc after defrag , no diffrence its a options or stay shutdown.

this is seen as a helping hand to you , hibernation or what ever it is your pc is trying to do.

do note this is not just a steam problem this is many online app that dont like the offline, and keep checking or update then app is running.

i know im hard, ( call it no Brains programmers that need a friendly kick in the butt, )
its ABC in learn to program , start a app and shutdown a app.
then you know such , then it reflect back at all programmers, and that is the problem here.
maybe they have been told not to make shutdown , that even worse, at least there is exit steam, so all hope is not lost. now they need to change app.

gl with suggestion, and yes this is a steam issue, but they will not admit it.
call it a greyzone is step to fare, call it lack of knowledge is more correct.

[Iceira]

Postat inițial de Iceira:

Ask suggest to add option , after DL exit steam.


all this is still steam faulth, Download Restiction and option has been neglected over apox 2 decads,

dont forget all other here, cant understand you then, they dont get it , shutdown steam then DL is done, its that simple.

you have steam devs with no brain and all of user that dont get it.

this is same as reboot pc after defrag , no diffrence its a options or stay shutdown.

this is seen as a helping hand to you , hibernation or what ever it is your pc is trying to do.

do note this is not just a steam problem this is many online app that dont like the offline, and keep checking or update then app is running.

i know im hard, ( call it no Brains programmers that need a friendly kick in the butt, )
its ABC in learn to program , start a app and shutdown a app.
then you know such , then it reflect back at all programmers, and that is the problem here.
maybe they have been told not to make shutdown , that even worse, at least there is exit steam, so all hope is not lost. now they need to change app.

gl with suggestion, and yes this is a steam issue, but they will not admit it.
call it a greyzone is step to fare, call it lack of knowledge is more correct.

server kick you then you are idle , even seen apps with such, im doing nothing in ## minute shutdown. im sure other things can go wrong , but aient that what you already have here.

even my telly has sleep functions, ( this is not to be rude or be smart , this is how outdate people is and cant see past what once was, and now what should have been there.

dont forget we atarted with modem that use call up to ISP, so as you see nothing new in this.

better stop here, i thnk you get it, call it lack of brains from steam, dont blaim steam user for not knowing it, but that not a excuss for not knowing, such option should have been there.

[Iceira]

Postat inițial de manatails:

Postat inițial de Iceira:

Ask suggest to add option , after DL exit steam.


all this is still steam faulth, Download Restiction and option has been neglected over apox 2 decads,

Yeah I don't understand why they are neglecting such basic UX requests

and we all learn this from modem age , disconnect from isp to save cash.
and just because we go fiber. has not change a think. why will you not have pc shutdown then its done, lesser noise if you sleep in same room.
and i bet they never think on such, after fiber is there , why shutdown at all.
they forgot bandwide data limitation to other things that not seen as steam problem.

have you notice how hard it is to add things to schedule, and now we are in covid19 age and network is under pressure, and i can setup my pc update my games from 01:00 to 05:00
so bandwide is better for other , dont get me wrong here 1GB flatrate , so i could say dont care and not my problem, ( but then all have 1GB someday it will be my problem )

steam is so big today and they need to RE-Think Global network.
most can only play 1 game anyway, so how come all DL is here and now after you buy it.
many could have pc that can do this then steam has better time for it, unless user force the DL because he want to play it here and now. ( i know we are past shutdown , but it still part of bandwide and lack of option, and so many steam user has no clue on things in global scale )

but idle shutdown or after download shutdown and schedule and "time slot download" and its option its all part of current topic.

then you have 1 billion steam account and maybe ½ of them is active steam use , such option could help alot of others bandwide issue in prime time, there is many that cant have pc turn on but, even that is a step in right direction, i dont need to download alot of things in primetime , but option is simple not there in off peaktime .
and no matter how you put it , thats steam faulth. or lack of knowing.

[Iceira]

that spam has nothing todo with current topic. ( you can be report for such. )

[Castile]

if you look at first reply from Tev you will see the solution to the problem. it worked fine for a steam install on a physical Machine. I saw someone saying this was happening on a clean install on a VM, not sure if the problem they're having is something specific to their VM setup or not. The rest of this necro is just odd

[Iceira]

Postat inițial de Castile:

if you look at first reply from Tev you will see the solution to the problem. it worked fine for a steam install on a physical Machine. I saw someone saying this was happening on a clean install on a VM, not sure if the problem they're having is something specific to their VM setup or not. The rest of this necro is just odd

again this is your lack of experience, this was a nice optiona learn from the past . shutdown after DL, sure let attack every steam user here, ofc its your problem what you dont know know from the past. thats your faulth. NOT OP and not Steam, yes it is steam , as i recall modem was there then steam start to be go online. ( no user will defend or help steam here, we are not stupid, they have negelict this , or said in other words dont care.