Trying to play halo PC online, but Vista wont let me

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#1 KGB32
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my dad purchased a sweet comp recently and i have a bunch of games on my external hard drive and i decided to plug 'er up and all was well, i started the game, but since it was a new comp, it hasnt downloaded a necessary patch when entering online multi. so i waited for it to come up only to find a message saying something like "you need administrative permission to access this patch" which bewildered me, because i used another comp with vista and this never happened (nor did it happen with XP) could someone point me in the right direction? thanks!
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#2 Elann2008
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my dad purchased a sweet comp recently and i have a bunch of games on my external hard drive and i decided to plug 'er up and all was well, i started the game, but since it was a new comp, it hasnt downloaded a necessary patch when entering online multi. so i waited for it to come up only to find a message saying something like "you need administrative permission to access this patch" which bewildered me, because i used another comp with vista and this never happened (nor did it happen with XP) could someone point me in the right direction? thanks!KGB32

Try running the patch as an administrator. You do that by right-clicking the file and then click "Run as Administrator." Let us know how it goes.

Also, you might want to post this in the PC Hardware Discussion forum. You'll receive a lot more responses.

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#3 Testify_exe
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Elann said what I was going to. If all else fails contact customer support.
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#4 bwil415
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download this and replace the UI file (itll make your menu wierd but it will bypass the check)

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1932

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#5 zuluith
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it did same thing to me on my vista and a message popped up with the option to ok the game