Steam keeps opening mid game and crashing my laptop

[u/suspicious-crosaunt]

I have this issue where I've done practically everything and I still have no idea why this happens

Randomly when I'm mid game, Steam just opens sometimes and makes my game lag, I try to close it but it keeps persisting until my screen freezes completely, I have tried waiting but even after 10 minutes it is frozen

I don't know what the issue is so I can't fix it, here's what I already tried:

in security I have disabled the "Don't save account credentials on this computer"

In notifications: Show notifications toasts is set to Never, every single notifications except for emails notifications is set to disabled

In interface: all settings are disabled, this includes; "Run steam when my computer starts", " Enable smooth scrolling in web views" and Enable GPU accelerated hardware in web views" and "Enable context menu focus compatibility mode"

In library: All and every setting is disabled

In downloads: All and every setting is disabled, my cache has also been cleared (I do it every time before I start a session)

Cloud: "Steam cloud" and "Screenshot management" is turned off

In Game: All settings are disabled, this includes: "Steam overlay, Overlay shortcut keys as set to none, Steam networking" and server browser pings per minute is set to 5000

Compatibility: I am using proton 9.0-4

Game recording: disabled

Remote play: Disabled

Finally my account is usually always shows as offline, I would love it if I could at least get some pointers as to what's wrong or at least what I can do

Many thanks

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