Thank you so much for this! Your tips really help here. I'm almost ashamed (almost) to admit 99% of the games I've been playing so far have been non Steam games. So the, ah, 'legit' way of doing things is something I'm not so used to yet!
Sooo, are you able to explain how I turn automatic game updating off?
These are so great, I'm going to look through each mod you've recommended!