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If you don’t use an Antivirus in Windows, you may have enabled Windows Security, so try to disable it. Then find the option Disable shield, Disable Protection or something like that. If you want to do that, you only need to find your Antivirus icon in the taskbar and right-click on it.

So you only need to disable your installed Antivirus to finish the updating or installation process.

Your antivirus will protect your from any thread, virus or malware that could harm your system but in some cases, it also blocks some inoffensive files while you are installing or updating your Steam game. This is the easiest way to fix the error content file locked on Steam and works almost in all cases.

Finally, there check the box Run this program as an administrator and then every time you run Steam it will ask you for administrator rights.

Once in the Steam shortcut properties, navigate to the Compatibility tab.

Go to your desktop again and rightclick on the Steam shortcut.

But if after running the game with administrator rights, you successfully fix the problem, you can try to give that permission permanently following these steps: Select the option Run as Administratorįinally, try to update or play your game again, if the error persists, continue with the following solutions.

Note: This process will work with any games so follow the same steps for CS: GO, Dota or other.Īs I said above this error occurs because Steam can access some part of the game itself, so to give proper rights to the software to access your game data, the first thing you can do is run Steam with administrator rights.Ģ. So, if you want to fix this content file locked error on your PC, check the next methods. But what means that message? Well, Steam can’t access some part of the game files due to some error in the data or because the file is indeed locked by some third party app or by the OS itself. Sometimes that message appears when you first install the game. Sometimes when you want to play a Steam game, the following error appears before your eyes: "An error occurred while updating (content file locked)"