Best way to reinstall Steam? (without uninstalling games)

[HypnoToad]

I'm experiencing an error, my friend list doesn't show up, Steam loads a blank page in the main window and that's it. I want to try to reinstall it. Thank you

OS: Windows

[DirtyFishy]

Back up your games.

[Washell]

Go to your steam folder, delete everything except steam.exe \steamapps\ and \userdata\, then run steam.exe. That will reinstall steam but leave your games.

[まりさ]

Have you tried steam://flushconfig yet? That's basically resetting all settings on Steam.
Just type that to browser or use "Run" menu (Windows key + R)

[Iceira]

Try steam://flushconfig

google it

do have login/pw ready

[EvilivƎ]

Go to the drive that you have the STEAM program on usually C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam
Delete everything but the steamapps Folder and also leave any SteamLibrary Folders that you have on other drives IF you have any. Those can be added back in later to STEAM.

[HypnoToad]

Originally posted by まりさ:

Have you tried steam://flushconfig yet? That's basically resetting all settings on Steam.
Just type that to browser or use "Run" menu (Windows key + R)

Tried it , didn't work, thanks.

Originally posted by Washell:

Go to your steam folder, delete everything except steam.exe \steamapps\ and \userdata\, then run steam.exe. That will reinstall steam but leave your games.

I did this too, nothing :(

Recently I tried restore Windows health through DISM and sfc /scannow and also nothing.
No idea what's happening, I'm logged tho, in the menu I can see how many friends are online, switch state... and it works at in-game overlay.

[Iceira]

Is this the Mobil in offline mode issue, that take over pc settings. and keep show pc and its friends in offline ?

[iyahn]

Originally posted by Washell:

Go to your steam folder, delete everything except steam.exe \steamapps\ and \userdata\, then run steam.exe. That will reinstall steam but leave your games.

Thank x