What OS are you on? XP or Vista?

The first thing I would try with that message is make sure I'm logged in with a profile that has permission to install programs? Next, I'd click my way into that directory and see if that file already exists. If it does check the permission on it to make sure it can be overwritten. If it does not check permission on the directory.

What a clearly borked thread. Neither the Cryengine nor the Essence engine are able to simulate critical things like whether an AI entity wants to talk about work or gossip about neighbors or how much they need to go to the bathroom. Sims 2 Engine FTW!!!!

(for anyone who missed it, this response is sarcastic)

Consider City of Heroes/City of Villains. This has been a long standing niche MMORPG with a very loyal player base. If what you find frustrating in WoW is tedious tasks (e.g. travel, harvesting) you may enjoy CoX's faster paced, keep players focused on the action philosophy. CoX also has a vastly superior quest (mission) system that dynamically scales most missions to your team size and difficulty preference. Teaming up is easier CoX than WoW, tends to last longer, and because of mission system is way more effective for gameplay and leveling. CoX's ability to customize your character's appearance is the best out there.

CoX also has a long tradition of free updates to the game (vs retail expansions) which they call Issues. They just announced the features of the upcoming Issue 12. Since NCSoft's buyout of the game from the developer they have been increasing the staff and have committed to growing and improving the game. The amount of new stuff in Issue 12 is impressive and they promise to continue that pace in upcoming Issues.

And don't say trading in games is helping piracy either, as the developer/publisher has already made the money on that copy of the game.

Cdscottie

So funny. This reminds me of an Arrested Development episode I was watching recently. They were working at the frozen banana stand and stealing from the register. Each time they would take a dollar from the register they would throw out a banana so "the books will balance". You have about as good a grasp of ecomonics as they do.

I cringe everytime I have to start a game with Steam (VALve). It's a pain in the butt. All that encryption/de-encryption. If that is the case one should be able to play the game from any computer at any time, on line ufopuller

Steam's not perfect (I wish they had a lot more bandwidth for downloading) but I don't think your criticisms are fair.

--> If you don't want to go through the Steam game list you can right click a game and "Create desktop shortcut" that will let you launch the game directly.

--> Games only need to be decrypted once as part of the initial installation process.

--> You can install Steam and your games on as many computers as you want. You can only play online from one account at a time.

A .dll is shared file with executable code. I'd be a little bit suspicious of anything trying to run itself out of your temp directory. This may be malware and you may be lucky that it's not able to start itself.

If you have Administrator rights, I'd create a new Profile for yourself. Copy any data files you need over and delete the broken one.

There are tools you can run that will tell you the product key you used to activate your copy of Windows. You should use one on your friends system before installing the OS. Not linking any specific one because of potential nefarious uses but googling "find my xp registration key" turned up several.