steamerrorreporter.exe runs every time I start Steam

[ThreeSon]

This hadn't been happening until the most recent Steam client update, but now, every time I start Steam, the steamerrorreporter.exe task shows up in my Task Manager. Steam will still start normally, and there doesn't seem to be any ill effects, but it's a little concerning anyway.

I am running Win7 Pro 64-bit, Core i7-3770K, GTX 680 and 16 gigs RAM. Has anyone else noticed this happening on their systems?

[worst gangster police state]

This happens to me as well, but Steam.exe crashes without any interface showing up. It's because of the new update.

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by PBR STREETGANG:

This happens to me as well, but Steam.exe crashes without any interface showing up. It's because of the new update.

Do you know if Valve is already aware of the problem?

The Steam interface does eventually show up for me, but only after the errorreporter.exe has open and closed.

[worst gangster police state]

Considering Valve hasn't posted anything since the update happened. I haven't heard of anyone's support ticket being replied to either.

[{<>i<>} Hoplite]

jeez iam getting fed up with this help,,,but here it gos again,,,(REG CLEAN ,,,DEFRAG,,,,DELETE INTERNET HISTORY.......K ,,,,,,HOPE IT GETS 2 YOUR GRAY MATTER SOON ,,,HAPPY GAMING

[worst gangster police state]

Are you trying to help or troll?

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by {<>I<>} hoplite ~~~~~~~~~<>:

jeez iam getting fed up with this help,,,but here it gos again,,,(REG CLEAN ,,,DEFRAG,,,,DELETE INTERNET HISTORY.......K ,,,,,,HOPE IT GETS 2 YOUR GRAY MATTER SOON ,,,HAPPY GAMING

Yeah, thanks for the tips. Didn't work.

Originally posted by PBR STREETGANG:

Considering Valve hasn't posted anything since the update happened. I haven't heard of anyone's support ticket being replied to either.

I'll give it a try.

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by PBR STREETGANG:

Are you trying to help or troll?

Well, wouldn't you know. He had a lousy attitude about it, but his advice led me to the fix. I installed CCleaner and used it to clean up my Steam folder. It removed about 4k of data. Don't know what the problem was, but after the cleaning, the error did not return.

*Edit: No such luck. I was able to start Steam once without getting the error, but it came right back after exiting and re-starting again. Oh well.

[Mietas]

download Steam Instalation, run it, click in Unnistal, proceed. Then run Steam Instalation again, and install it again. Worked for me

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by ELiTe | PintoS:

download Steam Instalation, run it, click in Unnistal, proceed. Then run Steam Instalation again, and install it again. Worked for me

I did a full uninstall of Steam, including all games, followed by a full registry cleaning to remove all of Steam's entries. Unfortunately, even after doing all of that, I still got the error reporter exe once I had reinstalled Steam.

So I'm going to say with confidence that this is a problem with Valve and not with my computer, unless there's some other possible fix.

[aaron]

No.... They are aware... Someone from Valve posted on a thread just like this on the forums and he said that its just not responding. Some people are having success by deleting everything accept Steam.exe and steamapps. Unfortunately it didn't help me, so it must be a problem on Valves end. I think they need to start fixing these problems. First it was all Orange Box and Source Engine games that needed steam re-installed and now you can't even open steam. They just don't want to roll back the update which they should until they see there errors.

[BeerPlusWeed]

Did anyone fix this? WTF?

[ThreeSon]

Originally posted by 19delta3:

LOL. A brand new machine with a fresh install of Windows 8 - and I still get the errorreporter.exe opening whenever I launch Steam.

Not only that, but I'm now getting it at random points just when using Steam, like switching to my library tab.

[dTTb]

Same sh* happens here.. pretty annoying esp considering I didn't (explicitly) opt in to any reporting of errors to Steam.
And there probably *is* no error apart from game alt-f4's getting reported back to Valve, seeing how just killing the process (which gets started by steam.exe) does not appear to have any negative effect on my side; steam just starts like it does when I don't.

[Aukat]

This problem occurred on my newly installed win7 machine. After trouble shooting a bit I found that the ram-drive I was using for my temp folder had not been properly mounted. (I use it to spare my SSD).

After finding a more reliable software for the drive (changed from MSI command center to ramdisk, softperfect), steam started as normal.

In other words: make sure steam can access your temp folder.

Good luck

[Q11]

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