Steam on Windows 7/8

[Peacock]

I am currently using SteamCMD https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD with -overrideminos parameter.

For example, If I want to download Half-Life 2 (Steam Application ID 220):

1. I open command line (Win+R cmd)
2. then I navigate to SteamCMD install directory using cd command,
3. type SteamCMD -overrideminos,
4. set up install directory using force_install_dir <directory> command (for some reason it has to be set up before signing in),
5. then I sign in with login <username> <password>,
6. and type app_update 220,
7. then I move files to correct steamapps folder (I found it to be less messy to download them somewhere else first)
8. and finally click install in Steam client that proceeds to validate the files.

Also DepotDownloader works as well:
https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader
Just go to steamdb and find the game's app id and depot id, then use in cmd:

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DepotDownloader.exe -app (app id) -depot (depot id)  -username (username) -password (password)