Disable the services with random names or contains STEAMAPI.DLL in it's name or description. STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler. Delete any task related to STEAMAPI.DLL. Disable unknown tasks with random names. STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from STEAMAPI.DLL virus.
Be careful! Full path on computer: %PROGRAM FILES%NARUTO SHIPPUDEN ULTIMATE NINJA STORM 3 FULL BURSTSTEAM_API.DLL
After being downloaded, STEAM_API.DLL hijacks your browser and changes search settings.
STEAM_API.DLL also causes an appearance of popup ads and browser redirecting.
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STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.
Commander one for os x 10.6. You can see STEAM_API.DLL at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.
In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:Program Files (x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …AppdataRoamingHPReyosReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.
STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.
STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to STEAM_API.DLL in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.
Remove STEAM_API.DLL virus from running processes
STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.
Disable the services with random names or contains STEAM_API.DLL in it's name or description.
STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Delete any task related to STEAM_API.DLL. Disable unknown tasks with random names.
STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from STEAM_API.DLL virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.
Remove STEAM_API.DLL virus from Windows registry
Find and delete all keys/values contains STEAM_API.DLL.
STEP 7: Remove STEAM_API.DLL from Google Chrome.
STEP 8: Remove STEAM_API.DLL from Internet Explorer.
STEP 9: Remove STEAM_API.DLL from Mozilla Firefox.
Change Firefox Home Page
STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.
But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.
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One of the most common Steam errors for Windows 10, 7 and 8 is related to the steam_api.dll file. Apparently, the error in question appears when trying to start the Steam application or a game downloaded through it, such as GTA V, Resident Evil 6 or Age of Mythology. «The program cannot start because steam_api.dll is missing ”,“ Steam_api.dll is missing from the computer ”,“ steam_api.dll is missing ”… This time we will solve this common error through a series of simple instructions.
The The simplest way to solve this common error is to verify the integrity of the Steam files, a process that we can carry out through the same application. Just go to the games library and right click on the title of the game that is causing the runtime error. Then click on Properties and then on Verify integrity of the files , as can be seen in the following image:
Image extracted from the community from Steam. The option Verify file integrity is in General or in Local files if what we want is to check the integrity of the game cache that is generating the error.
What the application will do is search and repair all the missing files. In case of finding any error related to the steam_api.dll file, the program will automatically replace it.
In case the previous method does not work to solve the steam_api.dll error, the next thing we will have to do is download and install the file in question manually. We can download the library through the following link:
Once downloaded, we will have Move the file to the System32 folder found inside the Windows folder on Local Disk C . For computers with 32-bit architecture, it is recommended to replicate the file in the SysWOW64 folder located in the same directory. To check this information, we can right click on the Windows icon on the start bar. Next, we will click on System and then on the System Type section, where the computer architecture (32 or 64 bits) will be displayed, as can be seen in the following image:
If neither of the two previous methods works, the last method is to move the steam_api.dll file to the execution folder of the game or program. With the file downloaded, we will go to the icon of the game or program in question and then right-click on it. Next, we will click on the option Open the file location . Finally, we will paste the file that we have just downloaded in the folder raid, as you can see in the following image:
Before running the program again we will have to make sure that the name of the file corresponds to what we just downloaded, since in some cases the name is displayed in uppercase .
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