How are you closing it? Do you simply press X in the top right corner? Cause in Windows that's not a "close program" function, but a "close window" function. Many programs only have one window or service, so people seem to be confused what the button actually is for.

If you want to close steam, right click on the tray icon and select Exit.

You can make a suggestion in the suggestion board to have an option to alter the behaviour of the X top right. But as it is, it works as intended in Windows protocols. So, Steam literally respects your wishes, it's just that you kinda got your wishes mixed up.

You can close it through Task Manager

Right click the icon in the taskbar and choose exit steam.

You need to dig in steam settings and turn off run while minimized

either go to the iron at the top left and find "Exit steam" or cut it through task manager. Steam doesn't actually use the X button properly, to be fair, neither do a lot of places so I wont harp on steam for it.

Steam does respect the actual function of the X. It's purpose is to close the current window not necessarily terminate the program.

HOWEVER there are plenty of other programs that have the option of closing out completely and Steam should definitely have it and it's been requested for like a decade now.

How is it that people need to be educated on mechanics which exist for several decades right now?

Steam not fully closing on pressing the X is not a problem, it is a feature. That many programs have and share. To actually close the program you select exit or you right click the icon in the icon bar and select it to actually close. If everything else fails you simply go to the task manager and kill the task.

If my memory serve me correctly I think I've seen this kind of behaviour as far back as Windows 95.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

How is it that people need to be educated on mechanics which exist for several decades right now?

Steam not fully closing on pressing the X is not a problem, it is a feature. That many programs have and share. To actually close the program you select exit or you right click the icon in the icon bar and select it to actually close. If everything else fails you simply go to the task manager and kill the task.

If my memory serve me correctly I think I've seen this kind of behaviour as far back as Windows 95.

I'm guessing, just a wild hunch here, based on squirel1975's username, that he might have been born in 1975, an age where technological literacy was barely developing. Just a hunch.

Originally posted by Bizarro:

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

How is it that people need to be educated on mechanics which exist for several decades right now?

Steam not fully closing on pressing the X is not a problem, it is a feature. That many programs have and share. To actually close the program you select exit or you right click the icon in the icon bar and select it to actually close. If everything else fails you simply go to the task manager and kill the task.

If my memory serve me correctly I think I've seen this kind of behaviour as far back as Windows 95.

I'm guessing, just a wild hunch here, based on squirel1975's username, that he might have been born in 1975, an age where technological literacy was barely developing. Just a hunch. :jawagrin:

Well, I was born in 1973, but I understand it. You also understand that computers existed before the 70's. Personal computers were new yes.