Steam error message at game/program launch

[Haste!]

Whenever I try to launch steam or a steam game, I get the following error message:

"Steam.exe(main exception): CMultiFieldBlob(pSerialized): Bad field - extends past end of blob."

Does anyone know how to fix this? I really don't want to have to uninstall steam.

[editline]05:38PM[/editline]

Anyone?

[larikang]

Does it happen no matter what game you launch? If it only happens for certain games, you'd be better off asking on the game-specific Steam forums. If you need to reinstall Steam remember there's an fast way to do it: move your steamapps folder somewhere else on your computer, uninstall, reinstall, move your steamapps folder back. That won't solve any game-specific problems though. You'd have to check that out by verifying game files and such.

[TehWhale]

Notice the Blob?

That means your ClientRegistry.blob is corrupted. Delete that, restart Steam.

[editline]09:33PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=Larikang;24371116]Does it happen no matter what game you launch? If it only happens for certain games, you'd be better off asking on the game-specific Steam forums. If you need to reinstall Steam remember there's an fast way to do it: move your steamapps folder somewhere else on your computer, uninstall, reinstall, move your steamapps folder back. That won't solve any game-specific problems though. You'd have to check that out by verifying game files and such.[/QUOTE]This is way too much work for something so simple. Any errors that contain "blob" are usually the ClientRegistry.blob file corrupted.