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Running Steam on Windows 7&8*

First published on 2023-04-04

Today's banner prompt for the Beita version update
For those who want to play GTA4 or TH on the Windows platform after 272 days

Referencing this article, thanks for the inspiration

You can directly access Steam without installing any software like the reference article (only for the Steam platform and the national region code; if it's another region code, download Watt toolkit v2.8.6 for acceleration, available as of 2023/4/4)

If you are installing Steam on Windows 7 for the first time, download the official installation package to create some things for Steam

After opening, during the "Select Installation Location" step, remember the path of the target folder for later use

If you want to create some things for Steam (hereinafter referred to as the base package), press install in the above step


We do not know what the future situation will be like, we can only speculate from the XP installation steps

  1. The installation steps execute normally, but it gets stuck on updating when entering Steam (goto normal)

  2. The installation steps do not download normally, root certificate error (literally means updating the certificate)

  3. The installation steps do not proceed normally, only the base package (the target folder has steam.exe, goto normal)


Normal situation

Download steam.7z and then extract it in the parent folder of the target folder

For example, if my target folder is E:\Program Files\steam, the parent folder of the target folder is E:\Program Files

Then place the downloaded steam.7z in the parent folder and extract it. If prompted to overwrite, confirm directly

Then extract some 7z files inside, which are all update contents and some caches that may be needed

Extract these 7z files to the current location

steam/depotcache.7z
steam/package.7z
steam/appcache/httpcache.7z

Then enter Steam (if it's a national region account) you can log in directly; other region codes may need acceleration to log in

A reminder for those logging in far into the future:

You should copy a config.vdf from the steam\config folder of the new machine to the steam\config folder on the Windows 7 machine

Otherwise, you will not be able to log in to your account normally

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