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2025-12-23
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The following explain how to resolve the issue of Steam opening very slowly after login. This problem can be fixed by installing the Steam service.

  1. Enable Super Client on the target PC.
  2. Open CMD.exe as Administrator.
  3. First, locate the correct path to your Steam installation's bin folder (ex G:\Steam\bin).
  4. In the Command Prompt, run:  cd /d "Your_Steam_Path\bin"  Example: cd /d "G:\Steam\bin"
  5. Run the installation:
    steamservice.exe /install
  6. Press Enter and wait a few seconds until you see the "Install complete" confirmation. (Figure 1).

Figure 1

  1. After completing the installation, shut down the PC and disable Super Client to save the changes.

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