How do you disable steam chat from popping up?

[akatsukiempire123]

I can't find where to disable it on the settings page

[Glimmer]

The Friend's List?
Close the Friend's List, Close Steam. Start Steam.
Steam remembers if the Friend's list is open or closed when it closes and will set the Friend's List to that state when it starts again.

If there's an actual Chat window
Click on the cog on the right side of the Friend's List and set "Remember my open chats" to off

[MoonDog_Mu]

You can't from settings. Someone overlooked that, or decided the people who pay their salary shouldnt have the option.

So the fix, is to append these flags to the steam shortcut (or do it in regedit if you are competent).

x:\Path_To_Steam\steam.exe -nofriendsui -nochatui -silent

[matrizdedolor]

Just turn ON the memorize chat, i'm not javing that problem anymore. Greetings

[akatsukiempire123]

Originally posted by MoonDog_Mu:

You can't from settings. Someone overlooked that, or decided the people who pay their salary shouldnt have the option.

So the fix, is to append these flags to the steam shortcut (or do it in regedit if you are competent).

x:\Path_To_Steam\steam.exe -nofriendsui -nochatui -silent

How exactly do you do that? could you give me step by step instructions?

[Glimmer]

Originally posted by akatsukiempire123:

How exactly do you do that? could you give me step by step instructions?

If you already have a shortcut, skip to step 4
1) Go to the Steam install folder (default "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam")
2) Right click on Steam.exe and select Send To > Desktop (create shortcut)
3) Minimize the window so you can see the newly created shortcut (name should be Steam.exe - Shortcut)
4) Right click on the new shortcut and select Properties.
5) There will be a field labeled Target with the address to Steam's install. Add

-nochatui -nofriendsui

Assuming you've got a default install location, the Target field should have this

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -nochatui -nofriendsui

6) (Optional) rename the Shortcut.

The Silent flag tells Steam to start minimized. It is not part of the new UI, so use it at your own discretion.

[MoonDog_Mu]

If you want it to startup automatically when you login, but also retain the nofriendui functionality, it will take a bit more work. Also be aware this requires a bit of registry editing.

1) Run Regedit
2) Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run
3) Create a new String Value (Right click mouse > New > String Value) and name it

"Start Steam"

4) Double click on it and in the field "Value Data" put

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe" -nochatui -nofriendsui

5) Close Regedit

On your next login/reboot, steam will start as normal, but the friends box will no longer popup. As mentioned if you add -silent it will not load the entire GUI and only the icon will show on the taskbar. If you generally launch games from shortcuts on your desktop this may be preferable to you.

[akatsukiempire123]

Both those answers worked. Thanks!

[vaggrippino]

There are actually three solutions offered in this thread.

Creating a new shortcut works fine unless you want Steam to start automatically when Windows starts.

Adding the

-nochatui -nofriendsui

flags in the registry appears to work, but it gets changed back when Steam updates itself. This seems to happen often.

Closing Steam with the chat window already closed seems to work, but I haven't tested it extensively.