Installing problem

[bsipe9]

Originally Posted by neofit

@bsipe9: I am not very familiar with XP security, but it sounds like you are having problems authenticating as the "Administrator" user. I don't know where it is coming from, I have created my current user (not named "Administrator") when installing XP, and it is flagged as "Computer Administrator" (which gives him the right to "install program and access all files") if I go into Control Panel > User Accounts, yet I had to make a Run As "Administrator" to make the setup work, thank god it didn't ask for a password. You may want to google something like xp administrator password.

Now, with the game installed, if I run the extracted setup.exe it opens an 'uninstall' dialog, as a regular user, not ran as "Administrator".

edit: forgot to add:
I don't really feel like uninstalling to try again, who knows what may happen . But one may try a right-click on setup.exe, Properties, Compatibility tab, then try various options of "Run this program in compatibility mode for". There is no option to "unblock"., whatever it is that may need unblocking .

Lol, that last one did the trick. I ran it in Win98/ME compatibility and it's installing as I type. How wierd. As for the user setup, I have it the same as yours, I think. The only users I have listed in the User CP is mine (list as an admin) and guest. Of course, when I installed XP originally, I left the PW blank (I don't have to worry about security). I went ahead and created a PW just for kicks to test that as a solution and no go.

Anyhow, it looks like it's going to install at least. Now let's hope it's not riddled with bugs and such...