<t> Thank you for your suggestions and response to my issue. I am sorry it has taken me a few days to get back with you, I had some other stuff come up. <br/>
I did not make any changes to the documents location, everything is default<br/>
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The full path it is this if I do a 'Run as ...

<t> Thank you for the suggestions. My account is in the Administrators group, and I also tried running the install from a Command Shell (Admin) in Windows 8. I did this from a fresh install of Windows 8 and still had the same issue. I did turn of the Windows Defender (built in Windows AV). I am not ...

Thanks for the reply and your experience. I just tried reinstalling Windows 8 Pro clean and then right after doing the CoH Demo install and I got the same thing. Perhaps it is just an issue with the Demo and W8 or something off with my system.

<t> I tried to use the demo, but I am not getting much luck with it. I installed and chose to upgrade the 3 items at the end (NET, DirectX, XNA). I get the launch screen ok, but when I choose an option to load the game up, it gave me an error about not being able to find some .png in UnitDecals. The ...