It is only steam, but when steam starts all my games play perfectly. I do just click on the icon just once. I also tried the icon form my desktop, start menu and from steam in programs list. When it doesn't start, the steam.exe is all ready running in the processes tab in taskmanager. How can that be if I haven't started it? I ran my anti virus along with malware, spyware and adware scanners and all come back clean. Yes the steam account is legal and I'm in good standing I've paid for all my games and have downloaded all of them through steam. Like I said, when computer is first turned on I can start steam and it works great, I exit out of steam, checking notification area and Icon is gone....let pc hibernate then come back a few hours later, start steam and nothing, check process tab in taskmanager and there the steam.exe sits. I stop that process and then start steam and bingo bango it works...So why is the steam.exe file showing up in the process tab with out being started.