Every single time I close Steam, it refuses to reopen again.

[Trev]

Say I've got Steam running, right, and all is well, games install, run no problem. Then I'll go to close Steam. (Right click task bar > Exit Steam)

So then if I try to open Steam again... Nope. Doesn't do anything. Doesn't launch. At all. There is a Steam process in Task Manager though.. but no Steam. I try closing the process and starting Steam again... Nope. Same thing. Just opens that process. I then have to restart my PC.. which leads me to a blue screen that says "Restarting" for a bout 7-8 minutes, which is the biggest nuisance of this entire problem.. which leads to another blue screen saying "Oops! We've run into a problem... We'll restart for you..." THAT'S WHAT I WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE! JUST RESTART!

So finally after my PC restarts... I can boot up Steam. No issues. No problem.. The amount of times I've went through this process is insane. This is a huge pain. Wtf is causing this and how do I make it stop? I've tried reinstalling all my games, tried uninstalling Steam, deleting all Steam folders and reinstalling. Still happens.

I know what you're thinking - Why not just leave Steam running forever? I've tried that also. Eventually, after a few days of having Steam open at all times - My games will fail to launch. They just open a window saying "Rocket League - Not Responding" Or some crap. So what's my first instinct here? Restart Steam, right? Oh Lawd NAW Bad idea bruh! We gon mess your day up and make you wait to reboot your PC for another 8 minutes again! Bahaha!

This does not happen all the time, however. 80% of the time, yes. But sometimes I am completely able to just shut down Steam, and it will boot up fine. I can restart my PC, and it will take 10 seconds instead of 8 minutes. (SSD speeds) Which makes this problem all the more annoying. If it happened 100% of the time, it'd probably be easier to fix... But nothing about this is easy.

/rant

[Sierra Oscar]

When you close Steam before starting it again, does the Steam.exe process actually terminate or does it continue running in the background?

[Trev]

Originally posted by Sierra Oscar:

When you close Steam before starting it again, does the Steam.exe process actually terminate or does it continue running in the background?

There are zero Steam processes running in task manager before starting it again.
When I start it, I see that little "Steam is updating.." window for about a third of a second, and then nothing.
Go to task manager, and there's the "Steam Client Bootstrapper (32bit)"
https://imgur.com/a/aKClFyi

[jelo]

same

[ZCapitan]

This is happening to me as well...didn't see any solutions

[Dranak]

Try dism repaire

then SFC

and yes google it so you nerver forget how to do so. this is system check up.

and yes you can even through in a chkdsk, it you want more check up.

all this should lead to okay its not a OS issue.

now reinstall steam over current install, this should fix whatever it is that could be seen as rights issue,

if you had any old steam.exe compability setiing remove them, this is seen dont fiddle with steam setting as steam now support win10+ and should not need any special option. even see game dont like fiddle with steam option they dont work with tamper with steam.

dont be a laptop in balance mode, i will end the chat here.
steam might not be a 3D game, but then steam start up it use so much GHZ, again i did not build it , but if i drain my cpu cycle to reseach, then i can actual get steam fail to connected , and that the problem with programmers today they are clueless in multitasking as they think im the only app running, call that selfironi a multicore cpu pc and steam dont get its resource, and then it fail to start up with network. ( this tell alot about its timeout, reduce cpu cycle and steam work fine for me.

you could be need of delayed startup, or do it yourself then pc is in idle mode, as i said in many post you need to be experience user today, to know such or notice such.

if you dont understand any of this say so, maybe other have diffrent view point , i wont help anymore with explanation.