As for the Workshop mods not installing, when you subscribe to a mod through the Steam client (make sure it's through the Steam client itself), you should see a download go through as if a game was installing. If not, it may be folder permissions messing it up. The Program Files folder has always given me problems, so I transferred my Steam client directly to my "C:\games" folder. Worked wonders for me. There's an easier method of just installing games to a new directory without moving Steam It seems that youre steam isn't set up right. Have logged on and played any games on it? If you have, you should get C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\Whateveremailisyours@whatever.com\half-life. You have to have subscribed to hl in steam.
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