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I wouldn't want an instant quit unless it saved a memory snapshot of the active game... so I could resume... exactly... where I left off.
But that has its own security problems... It would have to be stored encrypted and steam should be able to tell if its been tampered with (or completely replaced or altered).

Oh, it just wasn't reachable from the outside world because my router was in between my comp and the cable-modem. After I removed it, seemed to work fine.
Just not sure how to do this if I have the router in the way. Took forever to figure out that was the issue.
Thanks for all your help.

Looks like you're a long-time player of TF2... and that the Halloween update broke it for you.
One reason for such a message is that TF2 is already (or still) running. Perhaps you tripple-clicked to start. Check for hl2.exe in the Windows TaskManager and end it. Then try TF2 again.

If that wasn't the problem, validate the steam cache files from the property dialog (The "Local Files" tab).
If you've done that and it still doesn't work, try uninstalling TF2, then going in through Windows Explorer and removing the Team Fortress 2 folder (might be leftovers). Then your next download(would take a while) will be 100% clean and should work without any issues.

If you've still done all that and it doesn't launch, the Halloween event might be nearly over by the time Valve gets to your bug report(you submitted one, right?). I hope you don't miss out.

I do try to be terribly mysterious...
I end up being silent but deadly.

I see a lot of Frazer and Urdnot (in a good way).

The AD&D Name generator site is still around...
http://www.namegenerator.biz/dnd-name-generator.php

Diablo 2 or 3?

Seems to have been oficially finally moved now, but if you type in "is this a good gaming pc?" (with the quotes) I guarantee you steam will do something funny once it gets to the screen.

This is the only one in any of the discussion groups where a mouse-over of the topic eats your machine.
It locks up steam and eats up 100% cpu. I've verified that the ones before and after do not do this.

Of all things to eat my computer alive... a forum post... and one thats technically not even here...

I'd gladly speak to an admin and if you have the capability to watch my network traffic while I mouse-over (I'll suddenly not be online anymore) you can probably deduce whats going on. Oh, steam will still be running, but I'll be on my way to force-quitting since it will be locked up.

Even more hats, but fewer cosplayers.

VgaSave is the default Windows provided driver for generic video cards.
Steam's main window has a menu item that will tell you what Steam thinks it is... click on Help, then System Information.
If that is inconclusive try looking at it in Device Manager, DxDiag, or even.... turn off your computer and pull the card and read it.