I saw the HD texture pack for Skyrim on Steam, so I went ahead and clicked install. One thing I forgot to check is the download size, which is important since my connection speeds are throttled if I exceed 9GB of bandwidth before the end of the month. Is there any way I can cancel the download?
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I know of only one way that this can happen in windows, and has nothing to do with Steam other than their not-so-great decision to install all content into Program Files.
If you are on Windows 7 or Windows Vista, and you have UAC set to ON, then change it later to OFF, this can happen.
UAC does thing evil thing where if a program tries to write to a "protected" area like Program Files, EVEN IF YOU ARE ADMINISTRATOR, when you get a UAC prompt and give permission, it actually writes any files that would normally go into that directory into a "virtualized" directory somewhere else.
If you turn off UAC, that will no longer happen, and as an awesome bonus, it will no longer know about the files that it virtualized.
So in your case, if you had UAC on, installed a ton of games, then later got sick of UAC and turned it off, this would happen as you described.
See the second paragraph in "Features" in the article on User Account Control.
If you have done this and turn on UAC again, your content will come back, but be a TOTAL mess because if you've downloaded more stuff with UAC off, then that will be invisible when you turn UAC on, and vice versa.
this drove me a little crazy once before I realized what was happening.
i'm curious to know if this is your issue.
You need to install it as you would any other game/DLC.
You can go directly to its page using any browser and click Install Game which should open up Steam and start downloading it.
After you do that, you can see it linked to the game in Steam
Alternatively, you can click view available downloadable content for this game from that last screen from inside Steam, which will take you to a page where you can also start the download, and looks like this:
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Best Answer
In the Steam Library Downloads page, you can pause and cancel active downloads. Also by right clicking on an entry in your Steam Library, you can do the same.
Unfortunately, because steam binds this form of DLC to your account, your options are limited. As long as Steam has the DLC bound to the game, it will try to install it. You can turn off Steam's automatic updates for Skyrim, but this means that you won't get any of the updates to Skyrim and even manual updating will try to install the DLC so this is not a long-term solution. Your only real solution is to contact Steam Support and have them remove the DLC from your account.