Steam Client showing error 130

Question

Every time I open the steam client I get Error code -130. There is nothing wrong with the servers as I an access them through a browser. I read on another forum that this occurs because steam tries to access the store through proxy. I have disabled proxies but am still getting the same error.

Answer 1

This is what I did as a temporary fix (YMMV as server browser may timeout and not connect, in which case just exit the game completely and restart steam.)
rename
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Steam\SteamService.exe"
to
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Steam\SteamServiceBAK.exe"
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1879666
"Steam service is a service used internally by Steam to ensure elevated
administration rights in all scenarios. This is required by operating systems
running UAC because Steam, and most games, doesn't include native support for
UAC to ask for elevated rights. If they didn't use the service the user would be
forced to start Steam as an administrator every time, an act that would result
in games being saved to the administrator's user folders and not the user's"
AFAIK, it's being looked now by the MSFT Windows 10 shell team,more info here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_tp-hardware/windows-10-video-glitch-and-steam-crashes/0a781fb4-f3d5-40af-8ecd-6d32179887c9