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LazyBoy

Oct 13 2005, 07:54 AM

I ran this command on a pristine Windows (in virtual pc), steam installed fine and the reg file was merged correctly.

QUOTE

CLS
@ECHO OFF

ECHO.
ECHO Installing Steam
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\steam.exe /s
taskkill /f /im steam.exe

ECHO.
ECHO Merging Registries
ECHO Please wait...
regedit /s %systemdrive%\registry\steam.reg

ECHO.
ECHO Deleting Temp Installation Files
RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\Install
RD /S /Q %systemdrive%\Registry

EXIT

and this is what I have for steam.reg

QUOTE

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\Steam.exe]
"UpTimeStart"=dword:00000000

However after I restarted Windows, steam still loaded. I checked the same key and it was not 0 as I set it to, nor was it 1, but something like 1231245 (some really high value) and steam still loads up startup with that value. How do I fix this?

Thanks!

MHz

Oct 13 2005, 08:36 AM

Steam runs at logon? if so, then check for it's entry in one of these keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

LazyBoy

Oct 13 2005, 09:47 AM

Could you tell me how to delete a key in command prompt?

nakira

Oct 13 2005, 10:59 AM

Use reg.exe. for more info, type "reg /?" and "reg delete /?" in a cmd window.

Two examples

CODE

reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v "Free Download Manager"

reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v SunServer

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