Problem starting up steam

[snowbong]

when i go to play steam an error comes up saying

" Steam.exe (main exception): ERROR: delete of Steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 5 "Access is denied." "

That's the problem if someone could tell me what's wr5ong that would be great.

 

[Krovvy]

Hm.. sounds like you may need to do a reinstall of steam.

 

[Master.America]

Uninstall it before you install it; a clean reinstall is always best. Save your cache files (the .gcf files in your Steamapps folder) to a different directory first, though, so that you won't have to redownload them.

 

[snowbong]

But this is the first time I ever installed steam onto this computer, if i reinstalled it wouldnt the same thing happen because I would do the exact same thing as i did before?

 

[Krovvy]

No, something may have went wrong when installing steam.

 

[snowbong]

i uninstalled steam and then i dled it again and installed it and another error came up. It still doesn't work i tryed reinstalling it twice.

 

[Krovvy]

Maybe a reformat would help .

 

[snowbong]

hmm.. that sucks