new way to install steam on windows 10

[Chris Solomon]

just stumbled across this method to install steam using winge tand windows terminal/powershell

just type the following command from windows terminal or powershell: winget install --id valve.steam --exact

you might need to install winget before the command will work. if the winget command fails, follow the instructions here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/

if you are participating in a windows insider build, then you *should* already have the tool installed. this includes the "release preview channel" version of windows.

[Quinten]

Quick update, the correct command as of today is:
winget install --id Valve.Steam --exact

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

I rather continue to use Chocolatey like million other people.
Works since years and has way more options than the scripting winget from Windows.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Funny since you never need to "install" Steam in Windows OS, period.
All you need is a copy of a Steam.exe (even if it is old) and put into its own folder (for example c:\steam) and run it via right click > run as admin.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Funny since you never need to "install" Steam in Windows OS, period.
All you need is a copy of a Steam.exe (even if it is old) and put into its own folder (for example c:\steam) and run it via right click > run as admin.

[Chris Solomon]

Originally posted by Quinten:

Quick update, the correct command as of today is:
winget install --id Valve.Steam --exact
:winter2019happyyul:

thanks for updating the command flags.

[Chris Solomon]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Funny since you never need to "install" Steam in Windows OS, period.
All you need is a copy of a Steam.exe (even if it is old) and put into its own folder (for example c:\steam) and run it via right click > run as admin.

if you have just installed a fresh OS or have a new system and no installed games, you will not have steam.exe Steam.exe is only installed if you have stem installed in the first place. your argument holds no water.

[Chris Solomon]

the winget command is now a part of windows 11 and the latest versions of windows 10, so no downloads are needed. personally, I created a .CMD script that i use whenever i have had to do a factory restore or a clean install. using the command script it using winget, it installs 7-zip, notepad++, steam, epic, ubisoft connect, discord, powertoys, and so on. its really usefull becuase you don't have to go to half a dozen websites to retireve the latest downloads. just run the command and it both downloads and installs the software.

[Chris Solomon]

Originally posted by Schrute_Farms_B&B:

I rather continue to use Chocolatey like million other people.
Works since years and has way more options than the scripting winget from Windows.

chocolatey uses powershell which is way too complicated for some. winget is able to be used by the good old ms-dos style command prompt. and as for scripting it, it is as simple as writing a few commands into a .bat or .cmd file. batch files are about as simple as you can get when it comes to scripting.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Funny since you never need to "install" Steam in Windows OS, period.
All you need is a copy of a Steam.exe (even if it is old) and put into its own folder (for example c:\steam) and run it via right click > run as admin.

if you have just installed a fresh OS or have a new system and no installed games, you will not have steam.exe Steam.exe is only installed if you have stem installed in the first place. your argument holds no water.

why would you not have it?
its pretty ez to put a steam.exe backup on a simple flash drive for new installs
plus all my new builds i keep all my games on 1 hdd so the fresh windows install on ssd does not affect steam as soon as windows is installed steam is rdy to go on a fresh install

either get hdd that has all your games that you just plop in new machines
or just simply copy steam.exe to flash drive for new installs

same thing really, simple and ez

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Unless this is your very first PC or brand new 5o Steam, why wouldn't you have jt? A real PC user would have a copy of it, maybe on a backup drive already.

[Chris Solomon]

using that method of installing steam means that steam is not properly registered as installed software. which means any uninstall or repair operations via add/remove software (or apps in settings) is not possible. using steam.exe the way you said was not how the feature is intended to be used. it is meant to function as a repair feature, not a method of installing the client.

[my new friend]

I never have Steam on my OS drive. I have a separate drive for my apps. Just install new OS, plug in drive with apps on it and go.
I also keep a folder of all downloaded apps in case I want an older version installed for testing.

[Chris Solomon]

i actually DO keep my steam library on an external WD BLack Game drive, but i found that things go a lot smoother when i install steam properly, and then make any adjustments to the install i need to (usually consisting of setting up directory junctions between the drive and C:\Program Files (x86)\ )

[my new friend]

Originally posted by Chris Solomon:

i actually DO keep my steam library on an external WD BLack Game drive, but i found that things go a lot smoother when i install steam properly, and then make any adjustments to the install i need to (usually consisting of setting up directory junctions between the drive and C:\Program Files (x86)\ )

I never said the Steam library drive. I said Steam itself. I don't even use my app drive for downloading or installing games on it.
And Steam already installs properly the way I have it set up.

[Chris Solomon]

I also keep a seperate drive of equal size that has a complete copy of the game drive's contents that i keep synced using robocopy. I started doing this after the first drive i had, an seagate expansion drive had a head crash that physically scraped all the data off of the drive. i lost over 4TB of data when that happened.