Steam

Oliver Amos · Jan 25, 2009

I don't think anyone needs to leave the group. Simply do not give your user name and password to anyone. Only type it in when you log into steam and that's it.

Krister Larsson · Jan 30, 2009

Attempt

Just had a chat message from someone I don't know inviting me to a web page with a steam login. Sure I did not login!

Attached are some screen captures from both the chat (so you can see the name of the Steam user - "Brazzers # juKa") as well as the page referred to.

The user was online for some time but just now went off line! Guess he was waiting for me to login on the page trying to steal my id and password.
Bummer!!!!

Bram Hengeveld · Jan 30, 2009

This is why i have completely disabled the steamchat for a long time now, ill use msn if i want to speak to somebody

This sucks big time

Krister Larsson · Jan 30, 2009

Well, I did leave a message for him since I did a login attempt but with the username "Bummer" and password "f***off"!

DeeezNutz · Jan 30, 2009

Krister Larsson said:
Well, I did leave a message for him since I did a login attempt but with the username "Bummer" and password "f***off"!

LOL that is a good one. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Matt Alpeter · Jan 30, 2009

lol nice one Krister!

Simon Trendell · Jan 30, 2009

Bravo Krister

I want to login now and get one just so I can do the same

James Yates · Jan 30, 2009

Can't you make the group invite only - that way people would need to PM an admin of the RD steam community if they wanted to join. If we only allowed racing club members to join then there wouldn't be a problem at all

Niels Pedersen · Jan 30, 2009

Luckily Firefox bloks his website

When you say to steam that your accounts has been hacked and all that, will you only retrieve the games you can document back? Because i have bought alot over the steam shop, and i didn't save any emails.
So will my CS's games keys work to retrieve or? just to know if it happens to me aswell someday.

James Yates · Jan 30, 2009

Niels Pedersen said:
Luckily Firefox bloks his website

When you say to steam that your accounts has been hacked and all that, will you only retrieve the games you can document back? Because i have bought alot over the steam shop, and i didn't save any emails.
So will my CS's games keys work to retrieve or? just to know if it happens to me aswell someday.

As long as you don't accept chat requests from random people or go on different websites entering your steam details you wont ever have a problem.

If you paid with paypal/credit card you would be able to show them the transactions to prove you bought it.

Jarrod Crossley · Jan 30, 2009

James Yates said:
Can't you make the group invite only - that way people would need to PM an admin of the RD steam community if they wanted to join. If we only allowed racing club members to join then there wouldn't be a problem at all

Because I thought the best option was to leave and as requested some members followed, A member called "racethewtcc" is now admin and he/she seems never to be on.

So it may be a case that we see if the Steam community can be claimed back via Steam or we start again.

Christopher Aponte · Jan 31, 2009

Krister Larsson said:
Well, I did leave a message for him since I did a login attempt but with the username "Bummer" and password "f***off"!

whahahaha
I wonder if he did go try it

Grant Waterman · Feb 21, 2009

Re-installing Steam

Just a a hard drive instantly fail on which my Steam was installed. Whats the easiest way of reinstalling it?

Christopher Aponte · Feb 21, 2009

well just install the steam application, then you can download your games

Grant Waterman · Feb 22, 2009

When I try re-installing it it says "already installed, uninstall previous version first"

When I try to do that it cant uninstall it because it cant find it.

HELP!

Christopher Aponte · Feb 22, 2009

check if in software (in control panel) steam is still put as install
uninstall it there, then reinstall steam

else you need to go deep and delete some registry keys....

Marcel Hulsbergen · Feb 22, 2009

Please observe the following procedure to uninstall Steam and any game content from your machine:

Exit Steam
Click the Windows Start button and select Control Panel
Open the Add or Remove Programs dialog
Select Steam from the list and click the Change/Remove button
Select the Automatic option and click Next
Click Finish to uninstall Steam

If the normal process to uninstall Steam does not work, you may have inadvertently damaged your Steam installation. To uninstall Steam, you may first be required to re-install Steam to repair the installation before it may be removed.

The latest Steam installer can be found on the Get Steam Now page.
If all of the above options fail to assist you in uninstalling Steam, you can still remove your Steam files and registry entries manually.

Grant Waterman · Feb 22, 2009

If all of the above options fail to assist you in uninstalling Steam, you can still remove your Steam files and registry entries manually.

Yep, had to do that and alls good now, the Steam site tells you which files to delete from registry. Had Steam installed on a different drive than C:
Now can someone tell me how to get all my Limewire downloads back off the dead drive :=(

Christopher Aponte · Feb 22, 2009

if you google something about
harddrive recovery tool/software
you can find a list of softwares that helps you recover some or most of the data... (but maybe not all of them)

Marcel Hulsbergen · Feb 22, 2009

You can try the trial version of easy recovery, if this program sees the missing files it is possible to recover. But the trial recovers only one file.

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/data-recovery-downloads/