Will uninstalling steam also delete all my games?

I'm not worried about permanently losing my games. I'm worried about having to reinstall all my games if I uninstall steam. Thanks for the help.

Still, you often have to run Steam as admin because a few games cannot make their save/config files in Documents properly without admin privileges.

Oh, and if you want to reinstall Steam, you can use its own self-repair feature. Delete everything but the steamapps and the skins folder and the Steam.exe file, and run that EXE. Steam will initiate a full self-repair which is almost the same as an uninstall/reinstall.

He could of installed Steam on a second drive, and always be using it from there. I personally run Steam (and about most of it's games ) from it's own HDD separate from my main C Drive. The rest of the games are in on their own SSD. It works well but depending on how you upgrade windows, and if you fix permissions, things can go wonky :)

There is another software games save manager which detect and save all games progress.
http://www.gamesave-manager.com/

I clean up my computer once in a while, and defrag OS drive twice a year. That does the trick. No OS reinstalling needed :)