steam is not properly installed on this computer. Steam service needs to run with elevated privileges to repair system settings.

[76561198199320921]

steam is stored in my external hard drive. I have been playing dota 2 on my personal laptop with no problem. However, starting steam on a company laptop prompts the message above. I think it needs to be run as administrator. I dont have admin privileges.

Is there a way to run steam without admin privileges?

Is there a way to run steam without steam service?

Many thanks!

[deepskyspy]

PotatoJuice,

You can fix this issue by installing Steam again through Steam's website. When asked for an installation location, select the specific location your current Steam installation is on, and it'll delete old cache (along with some other things), however, it'll keep all your installed content, games, skins if applicable, etc

[Seven7]

Nope.
steamservice.exe /install work only as Administrator, it's service thats start on demand.
It's used for Steam client self update, run on restricted windows user accounts (work like Run As service), it's also part of VAC control.

[metalhead docter]

Well, you must install it on your computer, because it also creates a few system records on your PC to work, so you need permission for this too. If you think that it's about administration, you have to get that privileges, there's no other way.

[ReBoot]

Ask your company administrator to set up Steam for you.

[Nublek]

same freaken stuff happens to me

[76561198199320921]

Thanks for the answers.

[mattskywalker]

hi. i'm technically challenged....i'm a little confused by the above comments as 1 seems to say I can get around it and another says nope. can anyone explain to me, if it's possible to allow these elevated privileges for it, how to do that? Thank you in advance!

[ReBoot]

Ask your company administrator to set up Steam for you.

[BWX]

Same thing happened to me today out of the blue. Haven't run steam in a while, clicked on shortcut, and I got the same message. I let it do it's thing in the background for a few minutes- maybe up to 4 or 5 minutes, then it started normally. Not sure wtf happened.

[Rocksteady]

Create a new text document in Steam folder. And paste this command

set __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker
start steam

And press "Save as" and name the file with any name but in the end put .bat
Example: Save As -> File Name -> Steam.bat

Next just run a file.

[CalamiTy!]

My didn't worked by this command

[Lead]

I'm potato

[Abyss Resurgent]

Extract the steam folder (.rar) double click in the .Rar folder click in the steam setup ANd enjoy

[LynxZMB東方]

Originally posted by caligula:

Create a new text document in Steam folder. And paste this command

set __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker
start steam

And press "Save as" and name the file with any name but in the end put .bat
Example: Save As -> File Name -> Steam.bat

Next just run a file.

Thank you so much! i was able to bypass the steam service thingy with ease!

[Leviath]

I am ninja