Steam stuck on scanning for game updates

This needs to be a sticky of sorts. Worked for me! Breadbitten View Profile View Posts. Worked like a charm, my man. Isn't working for me :.

Arsh View Profile View Posts. Personwow View Profile View Posts. I'm having trouble navigating to that with Windows 8, any help? Renard View Profile View Posts. Didn't work for me! Nice one RAK a most excellent fix, had me stumped, thanks..

I tried this fix just now since my Black Ops 2 game is taking a long time to load and this didn't work for me. In this post, MiniTool software provides 6 workarounds to fix Steam update stuck issue. Steam is a preferred platform to manage various games and applications for most users. However, some Steam users are experiencing certain problems while updating Steam or games. It is kind of hard to figure out the specific reason for this issue in each case.

But fortunately, here are some possible solutions to this issue and you can feel free to try them one by one. Are you bothered by Steam download stopping and starting randomly? Do you want to fix the error as soon as possible? Come and read this post to get top 6 fixes. Step 1 : Right-click the shortcut icon or executable file of your Steam and choose Properties. Step 2 : In the pop-up window, check Run this program as an administrator option.

Step 3 : Click Apply and OK button to save the change. Alternatively, you can try clearing your Steam download cache. In most cases, Steam update or download issue can be fixed easily by clearing download cache. Step 4 : When you get a confirmation window, click OK button to continue. I'll save this one as a last resort. Had this problem a while ago Dunno why it's stuck on you Possible fix, try to add -tcp on Steam shortcut parameters.

If you run Steam as Admin you will get a warning that there is no need to run as admin but this solve my problem :. Had this problem once, especially when I created custom categories After reloading computer and steam it was solved by itself Hey, So I've been having this problem since this morning I think O Anybody had this problem recently? Any solutions? Comment has been collapsed. I have it for a week or so : I can't even 'Activate a product'. I've done that already as you can see General solution Steam support would probably tell you the same : 1 Delete everything in your Steam folder except steam.