FAILURE TO LAUNCH PLATFORM MODULES HELP NEEDED

[SnakeTheLegend]

Hey guys, I new to Half-life 2.net and I signed up cause I wanted to stay in contact with the valve community. But I have a major problem, whenever I load up steam it gives me the message fatal error: failure to launch platform modules.I have attempted every solution on the steam support page and I have even tried to re-install steam. So far nothing has worked and it is really starting to get to my nerves. If anybody has any advice or possible solutions please put em up. Please help!

 

[MJ12]

You'll need to be more specific. Could you list your computer specs and also the methods you tried.

 

[BakonGuy]

You get it to work? If not, try deleting EVERYTHING in your steam folder, except for steam.exe and steamapps folder. Run steam and it will update everything. You said you tried to reinstall steam, but you weren't specific on how, so I may as-well say this.

 

[SnakeTheLegend]

I tried to re-install steam from the download site
and I also tried deleting everything in the folder except steam.exe and steamapps folder, nothing.

 

[SnakeTheLegend]

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.100218-0019)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
System Model: N80Vm
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 4094MB RAM
Page File: 1942MB used, 6428MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 64bit Unicode

Here is my computer specs, I re-installed steam from the steam download site. I u