I have a shared library from my friend. I was able to play it fine until today, now it says that that it has to be authorized again on this device and asks to send a request to a friend to do that which in turn fails:
"In order to allow game sharing the owner must login to this machine…" which they already did of course some time ago. How can this problem be fixed? (Apart from asking a friend to do it again)
Steam Family Sharing – Steam Has Forgotten All Shared Libraries on the Device
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If you want to do this without starting Steam and logging in, you can modify the setting in the Windows registry. The autostart checkbox is directly tied to a registry key — simply deleting it is all the Steam client does when said checkbox is unchecked.
Navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the Steam key. Or as a .reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"Steam"=-
You are probably applying one of the many games list filters (ie: installed games) - choose the game library you wish to view from this menu at the top of the steam window (the same way you would filter to show only installed games) and this will present you the available games from that library:
(On a train at the moment so higher quality screenshot will be added later)
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Best Answer
I have figured out what was the problem. I have turned off one of my network adapters. It seems that to detect the same machine is used you have to have exactly the same network adapters as you had during Family sharing installation.