CorpseRender Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 This question is directed towards ZeroHour. I also noticed that when I delete Steam.exe and I try reinstalling it using the repair option I get a message saying Steam.exe (main exception): ERROR delete of Steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 5 "Access is denied."
CAM Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 Corpse, are you deleting the registry key in REGEDIT or the Steam.exe file in Program Files?
CorpseRender Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 (edited) Corpse, are you deleting the registry key in REGEDIT or the Steam.exe file in Program Files? I am deleting steam.exe in regedit and I also tried deleting it in program files. Also what is the registry key? I click on steam.exe in regedit and I see some other files are those the registry keys? If so which one do I delete? Edited January 13, 2012 by CorpseRender
CAM Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 I'll check my Registry when I get back home as Steam isn't installed on my work laptop.
CorpseRender Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 I'll check my Registry when I get back home as Steam isn't installed on my work laptop. Oh thank you, please do it quick I want Steam up before Friday.
CAM Posted January 13, 2012 Posted January 13, 2012 I've checked and that steam.exe folder was confusing me. I recommend you try to re-install Steam if you want it quickly else wait for ZeroHour to get back from BETT in a few days. It sounds like you've been tinkering with the registry a fair bit and might have broken something. They are fussy things and can break Windows completely if you tinker with it too much. Also try System Restore first.
CorpseRender Posted January 14, 2012 Posted January 14, 2012 (edited) I've checked and that steam.exe folder was confusing me. I recommend you try to re-install Steam if you want it quickly else wait for ZeroHour to get back from BETT in a few days. It sounds like you've been tinkering with the registry a fair bit and might have broken something. They are fussy things and can break Windows completely if you tinker with it too much. Also try System Restore first. I just click on steam.exe and I see 5 files and the types are 1 REG_SZ and 4 REG_DWORD. Also I didn't mess with anything unless deleting steam.exe and reinstalling it did something. Also what is BETT? Edited January 14, 2012 by CorpseRender
CorpseRender Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 I LOVE YOU SO MUCH NO HOMO THANK YOUR FOR FIXING THIS IT WORKED SYSTEM RESTORE WAS A EXTREMELY GOOD CALL FOR ADVICE.
glennda Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 I just click on steam.exe and I see 5 files and the types are 1 REG_SZ and 4 REG_DWORD. Also I didn't mess with anything unless deleting steam.exe and reinstalling it did something. Also what is BETT? BETT is a Large Educational IT show in the UK - there is also going to be one in the middle east. Pop back if you have any other problems!
firecloud134 Posted January 21, 2012 Posted January 21, 2012 (edited) @ ZeroHour wow thx , that completely **** me over. tip: you should add "do it at your own risk". Edited January 21, 2012 by witch Language
Gex Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Hi ZeroHour, I created an account on here just to say a big THANK YOU for taking the effort to post that, I've been trying to figure out how to fix that issue since yesterday and even did a full reformat to try and get rid of it. THANKS! Ditto, also just made an account for this forum. Thank you ZEROHOUR!
fffffddfddhfdg Posted January 27, 2012 Posted January 27, 2012 hi, i've followed the steps you posted on how to fix this problem but i keep running into a problem that nobody else seems to have run into? i open regedit using Run but when i look for the folder \CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers, the folder isn't there (i screencapped it here- mediaDOTtumblrDOTcom/tumblr_lyha1y2oZU1qm3dvtDOTpng, just replace the DOTs with "." since i can't add links) is there another folder i can go to? or a solution to this? i really just want to get Steam running again and i'm very frustrated. i'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit thank you in advance for any help
thunderhorse Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 Zerohour, your advice has been working smoothly so far, but I'm stuck on step 3, because I have just about no idea what that means. could you elaborate a bit more on what's left for me to do to fix all this?
Arthur Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 I'm stuck on step 3 The registry key highlighted below is what you need to look for. Simply delete anything referring to Steam.exe. http://i.imgur.com/5tHut.png If you installed Steam somewhere other than the default, the path will be different.
thunderhorse Posted January 28, 2012 Posted January 28, 2012 dude, thanks! that fixed the problem right away.
Snapp Posted February 20, 2012 Posted February 20, 2012 (edited) Many thanks to ZeroHour and others, of this thread and the workaround to fix this annoying prob. Thanks again, Snapp ps, I have noticed adverts on my post. Where do they come from?? Edited February 20, 2012 by Snapp
TheAznReclaimer Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 Thanks that seems to have fixed the problem, but if anybody can answer this question I'd be overjoyed. I bought Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but after the first mission where you get owned by this dude and the cutscene where David Sarif performs surgery on you. During the loading screen, it stops and goes to the desktop saying: A problem has occurred with your display driver. Your system may not have enough resources to run the game at the selected settings. You can retry using the same settings, or adjust them to lower settings. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your video hardware, and try rebooting your system to clear up any issues. I've lowered the graphics settings to next to none, but it still doesn't work. Can anybody help?
jtull89 Posted February 26, 2012 Posted February 26, 2012 I, like so many others, have joined in response to this thread. It worked like a charm! :-) I look forward to using this site more in the future.
Emem67 Posted February 29, 2012 Posted February 29, 2012 thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you my steam has been doing that for 2 weeks everything else hadnt worked so far
justin101w Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 Zerohour, I have only one thing to say to you. THANK YOU.
BrandonVail Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Hi, like many others I was very worried when this popped up and did not know what to do, Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH, this is amazing help, and i had to make an account JUST to thank you, I am definately Happy I found this forum THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kizzonian Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Just wanted to thank you for solving my problem, i would of never found it. Will recommend your website in the future!
koray96 Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 i tried the second method but it is not letting me delete the entry.
Arthur Posted March 31, 2012 Posted March 31, 2012 This PowerShell script might be worth a try...? $key = Get-ItemProperty "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" $key.PSBase.Properties | Where-Object { $_.Name -match [RegEx]'Steam\.exe$' } | Add-Member noteProperty path $key.PSPath -pass | Remove-ItemProperty -ea SilentlyContinue -Name { $_.Name }
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