bad module ' bin/friendsUI.dll' not loading

When i tried starting up steam, i get this error.

I tried doing what this thread said to do, but i still get the message.

platform error: bad module ' bin/friendsUI.dll' not loading

 

man, i have the same exact problem as the person above me. this is ridiculous!

i just want to shoot someone, can someone please help! i've tried all the remedies nothing works. someone, anyone!

thank you!

 

I found out how to fix it, do this, it worked for me.

ok what you need to do is keep your SteamApps folder and delete everything else in the steam folder and reinstall Steam straight after you have used Add/Remove programs to remove it, make sure you cut and paste the SteamApps folder into different location for the uninstall part, then reinstall steam, and when you get to the end of the installation, dont click ok to finish, now cut and paste the SteamApps folder back into the Steam folder and then click ok to finish, Steam will then redownload everything for the program to run, and bang it works again, you will need to relogon to Steam, but it works

 

nothing, nadda, zip, zilch, NOTHING!

it doesn't work, mann...this is getting annoying

 

Did you completly uninstall?

 

yeah man, complete uninstallation. it's alright though i think got somethin

 

what did you end yuo doing to fix it?
i am having the exact same problem.

 

Deleting \steamapps\Winui.gcf and \friends\friendsUI.dll did the trick for me

 

It works for me aswell. Thanks

 

Thanks for the help - this worked for me as well

 

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This works for me too! You are a genius! It takes a little while to download new files, but it fixes the problem!

 

All I had to do when I had that error a while back was to delete Steam\bin\friendsUI.dl and Steam\ClientRegistry.blob and restart.

 

Just wanted to confirm that deleting "friendsUI.dll" as above STILL WORKS in 2021; also I did not have the ClientRegistry.blob file so just deleting the one file fixed it for me on 4 April, 2021. I had had the "steam error bad module 'bin/friendsui', not loading" issue for several hours before I came across this 14 year old post. Thanks OP.