Can you explain this in more detail? I don't know what this means or how to do this.

Pin Steam to your task bar.
When Steam is not started, right-click it with the SHIFT key held down.
Open the Properties window.
Under the Shortcut tab edit the Target field to be:
Hit OK to save that change.
Click the pinned Steam icon on the taskbar to launch with that parameter attached.

Tada! Old and proper functioning Steam.

Wow. Thanks! And would you look at that. Steam uses 3x less ram now too

Originally posted by RiO:

Pin Steam to your task bar.
When Steam is not started, right-click it with the SHIFT key held down.
Open the Properties window.
Under the Shortcut tab edit the Target field to be:

"<<original contents of the target field>>" -vgui

Hit OK to save that change.
Click the pinned Steam icon on the taskbar to launch with that parameter attached.

Tada! Old and proper functioning Steam.

THANK. YOU.

There appears to be yet another client "update" which I haven't applied. Can anyone confirm this still works after that update too?

works here.

Originally posted by Quoridor:

-vgui insert argument to steam shortcut. can confirm this works 100%

nice find!!!

Thank you savior, hope they don't remove this.

Thank you worked for me, friend list keep laggy when i opened .but its okay every functional great working!

Originally posted by RiO:

Pin Steam to your task bar.
When Steam is not started, right-click it with the SHIFT key held down.
Open the Properties window.
Under the Shortcut tab edit the Target field to be:

"<<original contents of the target field>>" -vgui

Hit OK to save that change.
Click the pinned Steam icon on the taskbar to launch with that parameter attached.

Tada! Old and proper functioning Steam.

Thanks!

Originally posted by RiO:

Pin Steam to your task bar.
When Steam is not started, right-click it with the SHIFT key held down.
Open the Properties window.
Under the Shortcut tab edit the Target field to be:

"<<original contents of the target field>>" -vgui

Hit OK to save that change.
Click the pinned Steam icon on the taskbar to launch with that parameter attached.

Tada! Old and proper functioning Steam.

God Bless you, and curse the ones who came up with the new UI.

Thank God

Hopefully Valve won't remove this too because if they do I can't use Steam on my laptop, I already can't use it on my tablet.

Originally posted by SMIFFY:

Thank God

Hopefully Valve won't remove this too because if they do I can't use Steam on my laptop, I already can't use it on my tablet.

that's very flattering of you, but their name is Quoridor

Works great

why is this in the suggestions thread? its already in the steam discussions thread. dude... stop

(and why the ♥♥♥♥ are people encouraging you)