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Old Dec 1, 2010, 01:31 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by PVTCaboose1337 View Post
Steam has a glitch regarding startup and news in W7. If you have backdated "news" sometimes Steam will take a whole bunch of time to startup. When you think it froze, wait, it is probably "news" being slow. Just wait, exit news, and then steam might work.
It isn't slow, it registers as not responding in the task manager, and if I wait like 10 mins I can get lucky and it will tell me there is something wrong with my internet or the steam servers.


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Originally Posted by Kreij View Post
Firewall or antivirus program blocking something when it tries to connect?
I have tried shutting down every non-system/windows background process and trying to connect, did not work.
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