I could not help but notice that many people were worrying about steam being updated.
Hellboss thought of a nice method to work around steam updating itself. However it uses lots of 3rd party applications (for example steamengine.exe and steam.exe from steam-down are actually beta applications from Vavle). This makes the solution a bit ugly (no offense intended.. Wink ).
Since no-one seems to have figured out what the patches in ppatcher.ppc are actually for, I decided its best to make an improved launcher on Hellboss's method so no updates are needed.
SteamLauncher functionality:
* Play / Download all steam games like ppatcher V5.
* Prevents Steam from updating itself.
* No extra steamengine.exe, steam.exe, vb scripts or big archives.
Install: Just put SteamLauncher.exe in your Steam client directory (same directory as steam.exe)
Note: ALWAYS start steam through steamlauncher.exe, if started through steam.exe it will act like the normal steam client and it will update itself!
Download:
SteamLauncher Download Password: hclaunch
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