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You have all of your email for the past X years on your G-mail account. Not only that, but you had another email account setup to forward those emails to your G-mail account, and then you canceled the other email account. But you didn’t care because you had all those emails still in [...]

To access the BETA client, you don’t have to download it.  Simply follow these steps within your current Steam Client: 1.  Select File. 2.  Click Settings. 3.  Select the Account tab (It should be active by default). 4.  Under “Login as a different user”, you will see “Beta Participation”.  If it displays “Not Participating,” click “Change”. 5. A dialog box [...]

If you own Gears of War for PC and you still play it (ha ha), then you are getting this error when you launch the game: “You cannot run the game with modified executable code. Please reinstall the game.” Why? Apparently, the certificate for the DRM (Digital Rights Management) for Gears 1 PC version has [...]

It appears that large percentage of the people who own this game have this problem.  It is not always the same issues, however.  Some people have the main issue where during the cutscenes they just hear static, then it comes back for a second and more static.  Some people have that issue plus sound only [...]

Everyone please read this!  If you get a friend invite from the steam account “Marc James Ashley,” DO NOT ACCEPT IT!  If you accept it, your PC will be infected with a seriously destructive virus that apparently makes your hardrive unbootable forever. Also, if you get this virus by accepting the invite, every person on your [...]

What a pain!  A big problem resulting in this is commonly caused by a bad patch.  So don’t waste anymore time and download the fix for the issue below: Link to fix: HERE *Password to the archive is nosta12 and you have to open it with WinRAR Please let me know if this works for you or if [...]

This happened to me today while trying to play some Day of Defeat Source.  I figured I would just throw something up here letting people who are new to STEAM know what it means.  That usually happens when they just updated a game (in my case Day of Defeat Source).  The problem is the servers [...]

So far I have talked to a couple people who had this problem. Here are some solutions, and as I come across more I will add them to this post: If you have a game controller (like an xbox controller, racing wheel, or joystick) attached to your computer, try unplugging and then starting up the [...]

I have been researching this for a while, and so far it seems there is no current solution for it. There have been people who managed to get their game working again, and after reading about what they did here is my conclusion: Make sure your computer does meet the minimum requirements listed below: Supported OS: [...]

This is so annoying. A very similar problem existed for COD4 Modern Warfare. Its such a simple fix, but they couldn’t fix it for WaW? Bleh. Anyway, here’s what to do: XP 1. Click Start>Control Panel>Sound 2. Right click on default playback device 3. Select Properties 4. Select the Advanced tab 5. Set the default playback format [...]