You do NOT have to participate, you can set your profile to private and you do not have to share ANYTHING with the world if you do not wish to do so. If you have something against the 'social platform' function. I have perhaps a terabyte in games on Steam but I only have about 300GB installed since those are the games I currently play. You will in most cases don't lose your progress either as your saves are stored in the Steam cloud. Once you have bought or activated a game on Steam you can install and uninstall it as many times as you wish. If you have a game on Steam that you don't play anymore (or yet) there is no need to have it installed. You can shut off Steam when not playing.Īs for the games on Steam. However, there is no need to have the client running when not running the game, same goes for the background services. additionally, background services when not running the main client came down to about 70MB. With the client open and running an update on a game it asked about 245MB of memory, this dropped to about 40MB when the update was done. Both the Windows Add/Remove Programs as Iobit uninstaller mention 0kb for the client itself so I did a fresh install (rename original steam folder, reinstall steam, check folder size) and it came down to 261MB.

but when you come to a trusted site like GAOTD you can turn it off.Īs far as disk space goes. Tunnelbear, for example, let's you turn it on and off from within your browser. You really want to use a proxy/VPN then there are several options for on-demand VPN. well you know) Make sure you have anti-malware (there is no acceptable inbuilt version) I could throw up some names but it really comes down to personal flavor I noticed. Make sure you have a decent firewall (believe it or not, the inbuilt Microsoft one is actually very good) make sure you have a decent anti-virus (believe it or not, the inbu. I fully understand that people want to be safe on the internet and I fully support this. I am sorry the url is 'vague' but I am sure your moderator will check the url before allowing the post to stay ) It will not keep you from not getting hacked if a hacker wishes to do so (really? you think a hacker cares if you are behind a proxy? because that is what a VPN is, a glorified proxy) It just hides the location of your PC, Nothing more.

VPN is NOT a security solution, it does NOT help you keeping your data safe. Since there is a lot of VPN talks currently in the comments I think I find this appropriate.

For windows instal Whispering Willows