Black square when trying to open Steam
I am on Windows 7 and I updated Steam two days ago and it worked fine until today. Now when I click on it a dialog box shows up saying "Verifying Steam Installation" for about 3 seconds then a black box appears for about 5-10 seconds then nothing. It doesn't show up in Task Manager.
I tried removing the ClientRegistry.blob file and restarting like I saw on some forums. Now it does the same thing except there is a third black box which is larger that doesn't go away.
Any suggestions on what I should do or where else I can try looking?
Best Answer
I removed all of the files except for Steam.exe and the SteamApps folder. Once I started steam again it rebuilt the files and started up normally.
Hope this helps someone else.
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