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This issue can be exacerbated by anti-virus/internet security applications blocking Steam from doing what it wants to and reading all of Steam's files as the Steam application attempts to verify them. Anti Virus/Internet Security applications It's worth noting that this is a well discussed issue with no official solutions available, there are plenty of different suggestions on how this can be fixed though and some of these work for some of the people experiencing the problem some of the time, so you'll want to try all of them if you really want to stop Steam from verifying every time you start it. If the window appears every single time you start up Steam, you're probably experiencing an issue with Steam realising it has updated. This window is displayed while the update is installed or verification process is running to provide feedback to you (the user) that something is actually happening, rather than staying completely silent, leading you to think that the application hasn't started. Additionally, Steam will occasionally verify all of its files, to ensure that everything is as it should be. Steam will always check for updates on startup and download and install them automatically to ensure that you're running the latest version.