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Niko5864 / . steam_overlay_clear.bat
Created November 15, 2023 19:40 — forked from AveYo/. steamwebhelper_min.bat
Steam minimal resource usage after removal of -no-browser & -vgui options. Enter script in powershell then use Steam_min shortcut on Desktop instead
@(set "0=%~f0"^)#) & powershell -nop -c iex([io.file]::ReadAllText($env:0)) & timeout /t 7 & exit /b
# CLEAR THOSE ANNOYING MEDIA PLAYING STEAM OVERLAY BROWSER WINDOWS YOU FORGOT ABOUT - BY AVEYO
$found = $false; $utf8 = new-object Text.UTF8Encoding $false
$userdata = join-path (gp HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Valve\Steam SteamPath -ea 0).SteamPath 'userdata'; pushd $userdata;
dir -rec -file localconfig.vdf |% {
$cfg = $_; $data = [io.file]::ReadAllLines($cfg, $utf8); $ok = $true
if (($data |% {$_ -like '*OverlaySavedData*'}) -notcontains $true) { echo "$cfg : no steam overlay saved data"; $ok = $false }
if ($ok) { if (get-process -name Steam -ea 0) { start -wait "$(split-path $userdata)\Steam.exe" -args '-shutdown' } }
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Niko5864 / steam_console_params.txt
Created August 23, 2023 09:48 — forked from davispuh/steam_console_params.txt
Steam client parameters, consoles commands and variables
-480p - Run tenfoot in 480p rather than 1080p
-720p - Run tenfoot in 720p rather than 1080p
-accesscode -
-all_languages - show longest loc string from any language
-batterytestmode - rapidly cycle battery percentages for testing
-bigpicture - Start in Steam Big Picture mode
-blefw -
-cafeapplaunch - Launch apps in a cyber cafe context
-candidates - Show libjingle candidates for local connection as they are processed
-ccsyntax - Spew details about the localized strings we load