Disabling Steam client auto-updates

[DAT Target Practice]

Is there a way to stop Steam from updating the client? Soon there will be a major Steam overhaul and i would like to stick to the current Steam client interface.

[Brian9824]

No there is not

[Jerry]

There are two ways:

You can either add the following commands to the desktop shortcut of your Steam:
-noverifyfiles -nobootstrapupdate -skipinitialbootstrap -norepairfiles -overridepackageurl
(right-click the shortcut, go to properties, copy the line into the target line, leaving a space behind the quotation marks, you find there)

Or you can create the following file in your Steam folder:
Steam.cfg
and put inside the following: BootStrapperInhibitAll=Enable

Both methods are proven to work. You will still download updates, but they will not be installed at launch. There are still users around, who keep Steam going on Windows XP and Vista this way, although it has been disabled half a year ago. :-)

[wuddih]

Originally posted by brian9824:

No there is not

+ if you find guides or something, do not do it. hi jerry.

Valve rarely mentions fixed security exploits in their changelogs and they had quite a few
https://hackerone.com/valve/hacktivity

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Jerry:

There are two ways:

You can either add the following commands to the desktop shortcut of your Steam:
-noverifyfiles -nobootstrapupdate -skipinitialbootstrap -norepairfiles -overridepackageurl
(right-click the shortcut, go to properties, copy the line into the target line, leaving a space behind the quotation marks, you find there)

Or you can create the following file in your Steam folder:
Steam.cfg
and put inside the following: BootStrapperInhibitAll=Enable

Both methods are proven to work. You will still download updates, but they will not be installed at launch. There are still users around, who keep Steam going on Windows XP and Vista this way, although it has been disabled half a year ago. :-)

I wouldn't trust that, the client is what you use to communicate with the backend of the servers. Your opening yourself up to a whole slew of potential issues connecting with an older version of the client as well as opening yourself up to security issues.

[Jerry]

Well, at a certain rate of outdatedness, you won't be able to connect to an increasing amount of the web-based side of Steam anymore, Store, community and the like will start to fail, once your version is a year or two behind. On the other hand, your library, which does not depend on web protocols, will still be doing fine. So if a stable barebone version of Steam is your ultimate goal, this way is as good as any.

[DAT Target Practice]

Second method should work. If i would buy games, i would rather use browser.

[✪ seyfuN]

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[Ogami]

OR, just an idea, you could act like a grown human being and accept that some things change with time.

[Antinov]

Originally posted by Ogami:

OR, just an idea, you could act like a grown human being and accept that some things change with time.

Nice hypocrisy there...

[DAT Target Practice]

@Antinov Yep, the New Steam Library came out and now everybody hates it.

[Sierra Oscar]

You're only going to run into issues with the client long term if you try and use any crude methods to prevent any updates. I wouldn't recommend it.

[DAT Target Practice]

No, i'm minimalistic buddy, though i seen it at my uncle's PC and it's not bad.

[Sierra Oscar]

Originally posted by DAT Target Practice:

No, i'm minimalistic buddy, though i seen it at my uncle's PC and it's not bad.

You'll grow to like it in time!

[thisserviceismadeoffail]

Originally posted by TheDude:

Some people just don't like change.

More we just don't like the "comic sans is the new hotness" attitude of UI developers.

[ReBoot]

See it in a positive way, there will be another overhaul in a decade or so.