Steam Client Webhelper when Steam is Shutdown?
Regardless of what anybody's ever going to tell me, there's absolutely no reason for the Steam Client Webhelper to be active when Steam is not running!

I've seen tons of information regarding Steam Client Webhelper in forums, blogs, YouTube, even right here in this platform, but failed to find a solution.

I've seen add this (-vgui) or add that ("-no-browser") to the start command of Steam.EXE and go to Task Manager, shut down this process go to details shut down that process... Only for Steam to start up all by itself again? by shutting it down?

I get 7 - 8 - 9 threads coming off Steam Client Webhelper in Task Manager and it's pulling up to 14% of my systems memory resources at this point I'm starting to get a little pissed off. And if I don't even have steam running, that certainly doesn't help.

So now I'm basically tired of looking for the answer and I'll just be another comment attracting attention to it.

So I'm simply gonna say, any bulletproof solution to this aggravating unnecessary issue would be much appreciated.
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buy much stronger PC so you wont worry any trivial matter
_I_ 23 Aug @ 8:15pm 
is windows set to use hibernate/sleep instead of full shutdown?
thats what it does by default

its probably trying to restore what was last running when shutdown

winkey + r
cmd
(run as administrator)
powercfg -h off

then reboot
After I close Steam I run these in a batch file to kill off the leftover processes:

taskkill /IM steam.exe /F
taskkill /IM steamerrorreporter64.exe /F
taskkill /IM steamwebhelper.exe /F
taskkill /IM msedgewebview2.exe /F

Also in services, I have changed the Steam Client Service to manual from automatic
Last edited by Midnight Fawn; 23 Aug @ 11:17pm
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