

You can now click on the upward arrow icon ( ˄) on the taskbar and then, right-click th “ Steam” icon there, and tap “ Exit” to close the Steam app.Ĥ. This usually minimizes Steam and it continues to run in the background.ģ. Close the Steam app, if it is still open.Ģ. You have to force-close Steam and relaunch it.ġ. But, don’t kill any Steam processes (like- Steam Client WebHelper) as it will crash Steam unexpectedly.Īfter this, try to launch the app from Steam and check if the issue persists. This way, kill all the game-related processes. If you can see one, right-tap it and tap “ End task” to kill it immediately. In the Task Manager, look for any Steam game processes running in the background.Ĥ. To open it, right-tap the Win key and tap on the “ Task Manager” to access it.ģ. You can view all Windows processes from the Task Manager.Ģ. Check if that is working or not.Īnother game process may already be running in the background which caused the issue.ġ. Once you are done, try to launch the Steam app from the library. Finally, tap “ LOGIN” to log in to Steam. After that, type in your Steam username and password.Ħ. This will log you out of Steam and close it as well.ĥ.

If there is a Steam game/ app that is already running in the background, you will be asked to stop it. Now tap on ‘ Logout of account:‘ account name once to log out of your account. In the Steam app, tap on your account name at the top.Ģ. Sometimes just logging out of Steam and re-login in it should work out.ġ. Fix 7 – Get out of the Steam Beta program.Fix 5 – Run the game as an administrator.
