[jandrese]

> some patches and mods for older games do not always work that well if Steam is in Program FIles).

How old? Like DOS old? Because most programs from this century should assume they were installed somewhere inside of Program Files.

[Crinus]

If you get into running old games in modern Windows, i think you'll find that when it comes to games such assumptions are the first to fly out of the window :-P. Games tend to be among the most brittle desktop software.