Steam updates every time I turn on my computer

[Jahwffrey]

Every time I start up my computer a little white box with a green progress bar pops up with "Updating steam" on it that fills and then steam starts as normal.

Is steam honestly updating every day or has something gone wrong?

[snarfblatt]

Mine has been doing the same. It seemed to have just started this behavior the past week or so.

[guikolt]

Yep. It started hapenning this last week here aswell. It always updates when I start my computer, however, it does not always update when closing/opening Steam again. It is something related to turnin off/on the computer.

[mahjers]

also happens now to me every time I reboot the computer. Only started happening in the last week.

[Wicked001]

Updates may require other updates to be installed before they can install. The updater probably does not check for updates automatically unless you close your steam completely or reboot your computer and then restart steam.

You can manually check for updates by clicking the steam menu and "Check for steam client updates...". This will allow you to patch all the current updates and when you restart your computer, it will only offer you updates when you are not running the currently newest version.

[HeavyStorm]

I've been having the same problem for the past few months. Not sure why we don't have an official reply; After all this time with this strange behavior, it's bothering me like hell. Not only it takes a long time to start steam EVERY TIME I turn on the computer, it also does slows down the windows startup sequence.

[✪ AutomatiK ✪]

Originally posted by Jahwffrey:

Every time I start up my computer a little white box with a green progress bar pops up with "Updating steam" on it that fills and then steam starts as normal.

Is steam honestly updating every day or has something gone wrong?

Steam support sux, 1000s of players if not lacs, are facing this stupid problem and forget fixing it, they don't even reply!!! Must be some secret DRM thing, maybe steam reinstall a lot of critical components everytime the system starts, in order to disable non-steam games.

[Wackedbanana]

Same thing happens to me, but if I just restart Steam it happens.

[///inq.qq]

sometimes, steam updates can be very weird

[Vigilant]

sup

[SirEpicFail]

Originally posted by onton4:

Same thing happens to me, but if I just restart Steam it happens.

Turn off your realtime anti virus program and update steam, it is blocking your update. Cheers

[dfens00]

Originally posted by HeavyStorm:

Not only it takes a long time to start steam EVERY TIME I turn on the computer, it also does slows down the windows startup sequence.

In the options you can change things so that Steam does not automatically try to open when you boot your comp. Hope that helps.

[slipjack]

Turn off the antivirus/malware and manually open steam. It should fix it.

[✪ AutomatiK ✪]

the thing is it does't update everytime, but may times, and when it does it is really frustrating, as arund 70 MB gets downloaded and the computer becomes useless for 5-10 minutes

[HeavyStorm]

Originally posted by AutomatiK™:

the thing is it does't update everytime, but may times, and when it does it is really frustrating, as arund 70 MB gets downloaded and the computer becomes useless for 5-10 minutes

I have the same impression, that it hogs my computer completely. I must admit I've not tried reinstalling steam... Too lazy, lol. But in any case, it's a real issue.

[Satoru]

Are you part of the beta