[Bug 6297] Half life 2 based games occasionally do not start due to registry in use

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6297

------- Additional Comments From [e-mail]  2006-19-10 14:13 -------
I think I've isolated the problem.  When Steam starts it also pops up a news
window.  Sometimes that news window fails to load properly, or just fails to
load period.  That is what's using the registry.  To fix this you need to fix
the steam start-up.