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Error: Steam is temporarily unavailable - what to do?

  • Oct 19, 2025
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Launch Steam or a game, can appear in rare cases the message "Steam is temporarily unavailable" - the Client is then terminated and the games don't work. Fortunately, the error can be with the right hand handles quickly fix.

Steam is temporarily unavailable - client registry.blob delete

Usually the error message disappears when the file "client registry.blob" from your hard drive delete:
  1. Make sure that Steam is completely terminated and not in Offline mode.
  2. Now you can open the installation directory of the Steam directory (the directory in which the file "Steam.exe" is) in the Windows Explorer. Usually, this is the path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam".
  3. Look for the file "client registry.blob" and delete it. If you get an error message, we can help you in a special article further on.
  4. Then start Steam again. The previously deleted file is re-created automatically, and Steam should work again with no errors.
Steam is not available
By the way: After a clean install of Steam you need to download is not mandatory for all games. What here to do, you will learn in the next tip.

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