[RESOLVED]Gameex giving me an error when setting steam to run?

[aldub516]

**RESOLUTION** Ive found that when steam is set to run as administrator, it wont boot up at start up for some reason. it appears the client service doesnt start. Maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesnt, but in this case, running steam as admin will stop it from running at start up

So i was literally "done" with my cabinet.. and hey! new random problem. Steam stopped working on startup. I set steam shortcut in the startup folder.. set it with a -silent command as was suggested in my last topic. It worked fine since then. And now it just doesnt start, When i open my task manager it shows the steam bootstrapper as enabled, but it still doesnt start. If i set it to start with windows from within steam, it still wont start. So i decided to try having gameex launch it.. but im getting an error? what in the hell is going on included ini and log. Im so frustrated. i was about to move this machine to my friends mancave and it all of a sudden just does not want to start steam, which messes my whole operation up as far as what i had going. No google searches turn up an answer to windows not starting it. but maybe you can help with this gameex problem? maybe they correlate?

GameEx.ini

log.txt

[Draco1962]

DId you try reinstalling the Steam client?

[aldub516]

I reinstalled it last night but fell asleep so didn't try it yet. Regardless, why would it just stop working? I have a fresh install of windows... It was working fine since I set it up and now just stops. This can cause a lot of problems for my buddy who will be using this machine.

[nullPointer]

Are you using an nLited (or other custom) build of Windows? That can definitely cause some oddball problems if that's the case. The reason I ask is because of this error in your log:

22:08:14.3  4/6/2015:  --**--22:08:14.3  4/6/2015:  Error: File not found.22:08:14.3  4/6/2015:     at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Shell(String PathName, AppWinStyle Style, Boolean Wait, Int32 Timeout)22:08:14.3  4/6/2015:     at ay.a(String A_0, AppWinStyle A_1, Boolean A_2)22:08:14.3  4/6/2015:     at GameEx.GameEx.MainForm.a(Boolean A_0, String A_1, Boolean A_2)22:08:14.3  4/6/2015:     at GameEx.GameEx.MainForm..ctor()

This error is not specifically related to GameEx, but rather indicates that there are some missing MS dependencies (possibly .NET related?).

[aldub516]

no i dont beleive so. Im running windows 8.1 pro with a clean key. I reinstalled steam, and still no luck. I did just set an nes and snes emulator as startup programs to see if they worked. when i booted up,only gamex and the nes emulator started. no luck on steam. this would be my 2nd windows install, for stupid little reasons. I cant imagine why this stopped working. Anyway to check my registry or .net problems? the ONNNLLLY thing i dabbled with in between noticing this problem is 800t logo changer, which i cant get to work anyways. I played around with it which mightve changed my bootres.dll i copied my original to replace if i messed up and i have since replaced the original file. I also played with permission settings, to allow myself to copy the bootres file in the windows folder.. I cant imagine giving myself extra permissions is disturbing the start up process. If i cant figure this out, im going to just re install windows......again. I love taking 30 steps back when im almost done...

[aldub516]

so for some unknown reason i keep getting an error when i try to reinstall windows. it just reloads my setup and tells me it cant install.. but at the same time it pisses me off to reinstall windows simply because steam wont start. It shows up as enabled in task manager start up. I will say on the topic of .net, i just noticed in my list of installed software "gamex .net 2.0 service pack 1 install"... i may be crazy, but i dont remember seeing that last time i was uninstalling software. But steam giving me that error in gameex, and steam not starting has to be 2 different things right? and if so, why didnt snes emulator start but nes did. This sucks. It can be so many things. and after a year of building my pedestal for my friend, this is the last thing thats happening and it kills me to start playing around with so many things when i got it right..

edit

a few small things. the little i can find online relevant to this, some people mentioned that in msconfig, their startup selection was "Selective startup" and even when they changed it to normal, it would just go back to selective. Id assume since i changed so many settings for my preference it should be selective.. im just noting this as it was mentioned. Also in msconfig, in the services tab, it says steam client service is stopped, even when i have steam running. Is this relevant? In taskmanager startup list steam bootstrapper is enabled for startup, but obviously is doesnt work. Could this stopped service be an issue?

for those willing to check- run>msconfig>services steam client service

[aldub516]

i believe ive solved this. and it is a very strange issue. I cleanly reinstalled steam, and i got it working with startup.. but i just remembered to set it to run as admin as usually suggested.. and guess what, it didnt start! i rebooted 6 times, 3 with admin on, and 3 off, and steam will NOT startup at windows when set to run as admin. This is what gave me hell last time. Oddly enough im going through issues that i once had before, as seen in some previous posts ill link when im on my pc.. for instance hideos.exe keeping a black screen over gamex. Its deja vu all over. But for now, i can say i solved the steam startup problem.