Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library Steam.dll

Woah, first actual New Post in a while.

Well here's my problem. I've had Steam for a while but recently had to unistall it because Counter-Strike wasn't working for some reason or another. I re-downloaded Steam and installed it. I ran the program and it would say checking for updates, etc. etc. but then have the error message:

Steam.exe (main exception): Unable to load library Steam.dll

I then preceded to reinstall it, redownload it from several different sites and then reinstall it, and repair it, but to no avail- the same error message has appeared.

I've searched the Valve forums and saw that there were a few posts on this error message, but none of them helped much at all.

I did see someone say to look for the Steam.dll file so I preceded to look in all the Valve/Steam folders, but could not locate it. I also ran a general search of my entire hard drive, but the search returned no finds.

Any help to this problem would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.


Here's a post to my post in the Valve/Steam forums. I'm Inspiron2688, as you can probably guess : P. Thanks muchly.:

steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70193