Steam issues

[Uberutang]

Mine is doing it. Windows Defender. Not Beta

I ended up swapping to BETA and now it only updates at first load (as it should for beta)

[B1nary]

I'm fiddling with various installs and repairs at my office with this thing will let you guys know what i find out

[Pooky]

Okay so it's not just me! ...or the OP...

[B1nary]

can everyone tell me what os and if its 32 or 64bit that they are using. i Just did a clean install with and without avast on a 32bit win7 pro and its fine. even tried swapping between beta, much to my dissapointment i cant break it, so im going to see if i can try the same on 64bit

update:
So, its working just fine on my windows 8 64bit, in fact i also tried putting the 6th may 13 version on the pc and have it update which at my house updates then wants to do the mini update the whole time.

Perhaps they fixed something since yesterday,going to try a clean install again at home tonight and see what happens, otherwise im going to copy this working one over and see if it breaks... mmm this kind of thing drives me nuts.

Update 2:
Okay so despite my best efforts I cant get this thing to break, I recall at some point avast flag a registry edit yet on the 2 pc's at my office it has not done this once, also when i uninstalled and reinstalled steam never asked to authenticate with steam guard yet at my office both pc's do this every time.

Im going to remove steam and all valve Registry keys and see what happens.

Update 3:

So my pc Is updating windows, Its updating because I Formated it, this issue is like a cursed ring stuck on its finger forever mocking it a blight that can't be undone.

In any case if you copy the contents of the steam folder excluding steamapps form a 32bit or 64bit system respectively then it works, the question is will it work when they push a new update, this is a risk my ocd won't take, so if anyone else wants to do this and then let me know (really i want to know) then please do.

Anyway a 2 year run without a format isn't so bad i guess its time

[B1nary]

any takers???