It could also just be that in the year or so since you've last used Steam on this computer it needs to download a sizeable update, which could take some time.
Right click Steam.exe inside the TCPView programme and click close connection. Open the Steam, when it hangs during updating, open the TCPView.exe and find steam.exe inside the TCPView.exe program. 
Extract and run the TCPView.exe application only. Download the TCPViewer application from Microsoft MSDN. The details on how to achieve this are as follows This is detailed here in this Steam forum post and involves using a free Microsoft Sysinternals application called TCPView. One other suggestion for resolving this problem is that by closing Steam and then deleting the clientregistry.blob file from within your Steam installation folder, you can complete updating the Steam client successfully.įinally one other solution that I haven't come across before is using a utility called TCPView to close the connection from Steam during the update process, after it has stalled. This of course, might not be the only solution to the problem you're experiencing. Under the "Boot" tab where the "Boot options" are, un-tick "Safe boot".Īs an alternative to running msconfig to force Safe Mode with Networking, it is possible to achieve the same effect by pressing F8 at the correct point during Windows startup (just before the Windows logo first appears, after the power on self test has completed). 
Load up Steam, once it completes the update, log in. Everything will most likely look big and ugly. Restart your computer and allow it to load up in safe mode. Under the "Boot" tab where the "Boot options" are, tick "Safe boot" then select "Network". Press "Start" button, type "msconfig" into the search bar and press enter. Load up Steam, wait till it's stuck on 99%. To restart your computer in Safe Mode with Networking support you can do the following The recommendations over at the Steam forums are to allow Steam to finish updating while running Windows in Safe Mode - presumably some background application (like a third party firewall or antivirus program) is preventing Steam from updating in these instances.
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