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?

[✪ AutomatiK ✪]

nope, opted out of the beta at the first sign of seeing the new update, which after hte last general update seems to update even the non-beta users

[HeavyStorm]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από AutomatiK™:

nope, opted out of the beta at the first sign of seeing the new update, which after hte last general update seems to update even the non-beta users

Same here.

[Old Hairyfeet]

Here is what worked for me guys, maybe it will work for you but after doing this Steam stopped with the update bug.. Steam Update bug Fix [jai-fixyourpc.blogspot.com]

[yarrmateys]

i found a way to fix this on my side. not the actual update screen, but the white box at system startup, while still keeping steam starting at system start. windows only.

1 - in steam, steam>settings>interface>disable "run steam when my computer starts"
2 - (under win7) open start menu in windows (press start button, lol)
3 - right click 'all programs' and click open all users
4 - enter 'programs' folder
5 - enter 'steam' folder
6 - right click steam icon, select copy
7 - go back one level back to 'programs' folder
8 - enter 'startup' folder
9 - right click, select paste, then continue to give it admin rights to add steam there (you need admin account or rights to do this)

win xp should allow you to skip from 3 to 5 if you doubleclick the "programs"

that way steam will still start at windows start, but won't show the fake update window anymore. whatever method it uses to start at windows startup is apparently buggy.

at least that's what helped me and made steam start normally, with the logging in window that lasts few seconds as opposed to the fake update message that takes over a minute.

[HeavyStorm]

Excellent advice; Because this means that if I just disable Steam auto launching, I will get what I want. I can live with having to start it manually.

[Real Goblin]

It's syncing files.

[HeavyStorm]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από FunnyFarm:

It's syncing files.

For a minute? No way...

[Strach-Man]

I have had the same problems but all is quiet last week

[yarrmateys]

it'd "sync" as soon as you manually started too, but it doesn't do that ever, so i'm inclined to say nothing is syncing anything.

this only happens on system boot if it's auto starting from steam's own autostart method. if you use my way, it never "syncs" anything, but everything still works fine. it additionally speeds up the boot sequence a lot.

edit: guess i was a bit too fast with that. it worked the first few times, but now it's back to being stupid after the most recent actual update.

[HeavyStorm]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από yarrmateys:

it'd "sync" as soon as you manually started too, but it doesn't do that ever, so i'm inclined to say nothing is syncing anything.

this only happens on system boot if it's auto starting from steam's own autostart method. if you use my way, it never "syncs" anything, but everything still works fine. it additionally speeds up the boot sequence a lot.

edit: guess i was a bit too fast with that. it worked the first few times, but now it's back to being stupid after the most recent actual update.

What I saw here is that, even though the "white" box shows up, it's much faster if I start it later on (no autostart).

This probably just happens because during system startup the disk is heavily used, whereas later on, steam can do whatever "sync" it needs in a few seconds.

Since I don't use steam every single time I log into windows, I think that's better than the alternative.

[Eve's Ghoulish Goulash Party]

mine says updating every time but instead of updating properly it just keeps on going until I hit cancel it did this for 42 hours then it crashed my computer I rebooted and started steam and it worked for about 2 hours then a steam self updater came up when I was doing something important and told me to restart to install an update so I did but 4 hours after that I had already been on steam and then It TRIED TO MAKE ME RESTART AND INTALL THE EXACT SAME UPDATE WITH THE EXACT SAME UPDATE DATE AND I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME. so as I was already angry about it making me do it all again I closed the game but IT SHOWED THE GAME WAS STILL OPEN AND RUNNING ON STEAM . so I tried to exit steam and it said waiting for game to close BUT IT DID THAT FOR A SECOND AND THEN CRASHED MY BRAND NEW VIRUS FREE WINDOWS 8 COMPUTER AGAIN and I could not successfully start my computer for 3 day and after that incident my steam and computer will act up and become unresponsive like a rebellious teen can someone help me it keeps doing this from time to time to me

[HeavyStorm]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από FH2ThE DOCToR (wont):

mine says updating every time but instead of updating properly it just keeps on going until I hit cancel it did this for 42 hours then it crashed my computer I rebooted and started steam and it worked for about 2 hours then a steam self updater came up when I was doing something important and told me to restart to install an update so I did but 4 hours after that I had already been on steam and then It TRIED TO MAKE ME RESTART AND INTALL THE EXACT SAME UPDATE WITH THE EXACT SAME UPDATE DATE AND I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME. so as I was already angry about it making me do it all again I closed the game but IT SHOWED THE GAME WAS STILL OPEN AND RUNNING ON STEAM . so I tried to exit steam and it said waiting for game to close BUT IT DID THAT FOR A SECOND AND THEN CRASHED MY BRAND NEW VIRUS FREE WINDOWS 8 COMPUTER AGAIN and I could not successfully start my computer for 3 day and after that incident my steam and computer will act up and become unresponsive like a rebellious teen can someone help me it keeps doing this from time to time to me

Well, I know it's a tough alternative because it takes a long time, but, have you considered reinstalling steam?

[Eve's Ghoulish Goulash Party]

yep and I had to create a new steam file and now my computer has crashed and every time I try to boot it up it says fixing disk errors

[RickReaper]

had this issue for about 6 months but i just turn on PC and go do something for a few minutes . Tonight i thouight i will actually see if its just me and if not is there a solution. Boy am i shocked to see this reported in Feb and there has been no comment at all, very disappointing.

[Retro King]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από 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.

Is that why it will no longer bring up the pop-up on start-up? Cause I removed all the updates to do with Windows 10 and I thought it was because of that that it wouldn't update Steam anymore