AWESOME update on STEAM for Vista....NOT (EDIT PROBLEM FIXED!)

[ramatheson]

Great...so steam ran an update this morning and now it won't load on my Vista machine. Greeeeat....something about friends.dll or whatever not loading. Anyone else run into this problem?

It's awesome, too, because it said it was "Updating computer so Steam Platform can run on this Operating System." How ironic...it was working fine BEFORE the update, lol.

 

[ramatheson]

Fix:

http://tinyurl.com/34pq8f

The this error indicates the friendsUI.dll file is corrupted or outdated.

The friendsUI.dll is extracted from the winui.gcf found in your ..\Steam\steamapps\ directory. To ensure you have the most recent working friendsUI.dll, please delete or move the winui.gcf out of the steamapps directory and restart Steam. The process will force Steam to download the latest version of winui.gcf and re-extract your friendsUI.dll.

If deleting winui.gcf does not correct the issue, you must delete all instances of friendsUI.dll to allow winui.gcf to re-extract the file: Run a search for friendsui.dll in your Steam directory and delete the files, then restart Steam.

 

[Volcom]

.......... never had that happen even tho i dont have vista i have never heard it of happening from friends.

 

[Blindsfell]

steam updates suck bro - i hate them so much