Steam – My steam account is logging into the old account, how do i fix

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My games on steam broke so to try and fix it I logged out of steam and moved the games to a separate hard drive. My games then broke. SO I decided to uninstall them and reinstall them only to find out I was logged into an old account of mine, I thought I must have loggged into it by accident. But when I went to re-log onto my new account it kept logging into my old one. Please help

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Just click at Steam > Change User... at the very top of your Steam Window.
Steam will logout and open the login window again.

then you can log in with your new account :)

click here for an image of the dropdown menu

Also:
It doesn't matter which account you use to install a game. When you install them with one account and then switch to another it will use the same game files and you dont need to reinstall it.

This also works when you haven't bought the game on that other account, Steam will show a BUY-Button instead of a PLAY-Button in that case.

I hope that I helped you

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