I followed gopher's vid and installed SKSE. In the vid he lines out how to start Skyrim with SKSE active. I followed those instructions correctly, but...

Sometimes when I click on the icon that executes skse_loader.exe, Steam will say that it's updating. When Steam gets done, Skyrim opens but without SKSE loaded. ( I don't know how it can do that....the shortcut points to skse_leader.exe, nothing else. I've checked it.)

In any case, I have to back out of Skyrim and click again on the icon which executes skse_leader to get into the game properly.

What's up with that? Am I missing something?

Any thoughts?

Do you have Steam running before you run SKSE when this occurs? Steam has to be running before you run SKSE or you will end up launching Skyrim without SKSE, though in my experience it usually leads to the Skyrim launcher showing up rather than the game starting immediately.

Thanks for your reply.

How do I get steam to run? Just click on the Steam icon that is on my desktop? That Icon takes me to the steam site...where I usually look in on the forums...but I wasn't aware that it actually launched an app....?