<t> but wouldn't it still try to look for it? Anyway i tried renaming it i don't know im getting some strange things happening if i name it just imagic it works but no battlsets come up and when i close the box the entire program exits and not sure if this matters but my computer is assigning a file ...

<t> Thanks for helping out you are the guy to talk to thank you... so i think we can figure this out you know so much. But I'm trying to fiqure out why this program isn't virtualizing properly in a standard account can you find out more about the serial checker that could be the key; also if you ...

<t> so how does that work- how does checking the serial number require elevated privilages? isn't there a way to virtualize the serial number check or set a security descriptor thats denying access; waht causes the process to fail the serial check in a standard account? I also noticed a number of ...

but wouldn't it hang without a functioning mci system? how do you skip over it if the program is trying to load it?

<t> No nothing was unusual with my system; the clue is mci error -file cannot be found check path and name. So this is the splash screen animation I checked it against a working copy of harp 97 and I think harpoon ultimate decompresses this file Imagic and writes it as a .bak file so i would think ...

<t> Most games that are implemented correctly do not require admin accounts to play; all user data is kept separate from the system part of the game engine for the user account and in some instances installing the game to a non-system drive will solve the problem.<br/>
Games usually ask if you ...

when i install the latest patch for windows ultimate commanders edition my standard user account is no longer able to launch the harpoon ultimate edition without administrator privileges.

<t> I cant get harpoon 97 to run from harpoon 20 years menu or from the directory i get the game window with all the menu buttons but the screen is grey and there is a message box that says<br/>
MCI error cannot find specified file. also when exiting the game and closing the game window<br/>
i can ...