Steam on my laptop

[Rob]

So I've recently bought a new laptop. It's a toshiba sattelite pro and it has windows 7 64 bits on it. I tried to install Steam on this laptop but ive gotten this error: "steam.exe (main exception): ERROR: deleted steam.exe but the file is still there" I've googled some solutions but those all were the same: "Kill Steam.exe just when Steamtmp.exe pops" but thats impossible because when it pops steam.exe is gone. So I've got no idea how. Can anyone help me? And why is it so hard to install just a programme?

[(Delta) Scorch]

think you have to re-install steam

[Rob]

Originally posted by FaTe' Phelpsie16:

think you have to re-install steam

I've tried to reinstall it several times with the error everytime i was updating it. Would it help if i restart after installing?

[(Delta) Scorch]

yes think so

[Rob]

Originally posted by FaTe' Phelpsie16:

yes think so

Just tried it, didnt help. Same error and premission failures.

[The Brown Hornet]

Well I have a Toshiba Satelite and steam is installed with no problems, try a different browser

[Rob]

Its not the browser? I'm using internet explorer. It's that I get that error. I cna download the files and install it but not update it.

[Rob]

Should i use the built-in admin to install? if so, i should ask the password on that one from the CPU guy i have xD

[sbybeej]

I'm getting the same problem.Have yet to find a solution and the worst part is I think my laptop received a Trojan virus after I downloaded Steam!Wtf?!

[(Delta) Scorch]

oh.. but you download steam on the official steam side?

[Rob]

Ive gotten it to work just a s econd ago: a guy on the mmo-champions forums helped me:



The problem is that you won’t get elevated rights without the steamservice.exe being installed. I fixed it by extracting the files from SteamInstall.msi with 7zip.

Right Click then choose extract to steaminstall.
Rename steam1.exe to steam.exe.
Right Click steam.exe and choose properties. Click the compatability tab and check ‘run as administrator’.
Double click steam.exe and it will try to update and fail.
Exit the update and double click steamservice.exe.

Now it will install normally when you run steam.exe


- C0rnel from MMO-champion.com

[emonxie]

Thank you for the save, COrnel, that's the first solution to actually work on my Toshiba w/ Win 7 installed. I had to additionally change ownership on all the files extracted w/ 7zip to me, then it worked as described above. Yay! Finally going to be able to play Portal2, only owned since preordering it on my machine a work, like, a year ago.