How to stop Steam's Chat and Friends list from automatically opening

July 30, 2018

The new Steam Chat is here and it’s pretty great, even if it won’t woo entrenched PC gamers from Discord. But there’s one aspect that isn’t so hot: Every time you open Steam, your friends list and the new chat automatically opens up in another window. Arg. The options menu doesn’t offer any obvious tools to stop it from happening, but fortunately, you can stop the new Steam Chat from opening when you launch Steam a couple different ways.The first method is simple. By default, Steam is supposed to remember your Chat status when you launch the application. So if you don’t want Steam Chat to launch when you open Steam, close your friends list before you shut Steam down. Easy-peasy. This method’s worked like a charm for me, but Steam community posts suggest it isn’t always reliable for everybody. If Chat’s still popping up when you open Steam, you can move on to a more drastic measure: modifying the desktop shortcut’s target path.To read this article in full, please click here

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