[font="verdana"]The PureSim 2007 demo works fine now.

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<r> [font="verdana"]<SIZE size="2"><s>[size="2"]</s>Somehow I knew you'd ask that.&nbsp; I had deleted the PureSim demo it a few days ago.&nbsp; I'll try it tonight and let you know what I find out.&nbsp; I'm willing to bet it works fine.&nbsp; It sure looks like a Windows problem to me, since only ...

<t> Absolutely nothing thus far has worked. So I tried the repair option from Windows XP Setup (not recovery console, this is when you're about to format the drive and it asks you if you want to repair the volume), and now the game works.<br/>
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Who knows what else is broken now, though. oh ...

<t> I'm thinking more and more that this is a missing or corrupt file problem, since this game apparently works on many more machines that it does not work on.<br/>
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I checked the redist\GameCom folder and that looks like it only installs some video codecs; nothing to do with database access ...

<t> I recently bought MF and I'm having the *same exact problem*. Also, I've tried everything you've suggested, including the microsoft updates. Nothing has worked. Tried registering every DAO dll I could find. No amount of patching, rolling back, uninstalling, reinstalling, or rebooting has helped ...