What is preventing setup.exe from running from my CD? It worked yesterday before a big Windows update ran.
I pulled out a 5 year old Acer (it's been shut down for about 14 months) so I could use it to run Red Alert 2. (I can only get RA2 to run on Win 7 systems which is what this Acer is running)
Yesterday, I booted the machine, played around with it for a bit and then inserted the CD and ran the setup. The setup was successful and I played the game for an hour or so. Later, I rebooted and played again for a bit. All was well.
This morning, I noticed the system had run a Windows update and installed a bunch of stuff. It had also scheduled another update for the next time I shutdown my computer (or 3am tomorrow).
I didn't think anything of it and tried to play Red Alert. Nothing happened when I clicked the icon. RA checks to make sure that a valid CD is in the drive before it runs. This test seemed to be failing although I didn't figure that out until after I had uninstalled RA2.
I disabled (and eventually uninstalled) an anti-virus program called AVG 2013 although I'm not sure why this would have helped since it was enabled when I successfully installed yesterday.
Now, when I click the setup.exe on the CD ROM (it's readable as I can copy it to the hard drive), I get the user account control dialog box asking me if I want to run the program and when I click Yes, nothing happens.
Task manager indicates that "Setup.exe" is running and then another "SETUP.EXE" (all caps) appears in the list and then disappears in about a second. The original Setup.exe also disappears from the list.
The Acer is running Win 7 (x64) Home Premium, SP1.
Can anyone suggest what might have gone wrong?
Thanks.
Yesterday, I booted the machine, played around with it for a bit and then inserted the CD and ran the setup. The setup was successful and I played the game for an hour or so. Later, I rebooted and played again for a bit. All was well.
This morning, I noticed the system had run a Windows update and installed a bunch of stuff. It had also scheduled another update for the next time I shutdown my computer (or 3am tomorrow).
I didn't think anything of it and tried to play Red Alert. Nothing happened when I clicked the icon. RA checks to make sure that a valid CD is in the drive before it runs. This test seemed to be failing although I didn't figure that out until after I had uninstalled RA2.
I disabled (and eventually uninstalled) an anti-virus program called AVG 2013 although I'm not sure why this would have helped since it was enabled when I successfully installed yesterday.
Now, when I click the setup.exe on the CD ROM (it's readable as I can copy it to the hard drive), I get the user account control dialog box asking me if I want to run the program and when I click Yes, nothing happens.
Task manager indicates that "Setup.exe" is running and then another "SETUP.EXE" (all caps) appears in the list and then disappears in about a second. The original Setup.exe also disappears from the list.
The Acer is running Win 7 (x64) Home Premium, SP1.
Can anyone suggest what might have gone wrong?
Thanks.
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I ran the SFC and it said the system was clean. I had malwarebytes already installed and it was not reporting anything. I tried uninstalling all sorts of stuff including AVG but still, the setup.exe on the CD was failing (without any sort of error message).
So I simply used System restore to take it back to last Tuesday. I was able to re-install from the CD and the game runs properly now. I have told Windows update to download updates but to let me decide when to install them. Since I intend to use this machine only for this game and perhaps the occasional Internet browsing session, I can live with an out of date system. (Heck, the game is from 2001)
I noticed that once I restored back to Tuesday, Apple iTunes (and a bunch of other Apple stuff like iCloud) wanted to update themselves. I wondered if that may have anything to do with it but kind of doubt it. Since the rig is working the way I want it to I decided to not update the Apple stuff either.
I ran the SFC and it said the system was clean. I had malwarebytes already installed and it was not reporting anything. I tried uninstalling all sorts of stuff including AVG but still, the setup.exe on the CD was failing (without any sort of error message).
So I simply used System restore to take it back to last Tuesday. I was able to re-install from the CD and the game runs properly now. I have told Windows update to download updates but to let me decide when to install them. Since I intend to use this machine only for this game and perhaps the occasional Internet browsing session, I can live with an out of date system. (Heck, the game is from 2001)
I noticed that once I restored back to Tuesday, Apple iTunes (and a bunch of other Apple stuff like iCloud) wanted to update themselves. I wondered if that may have anything to do with it but kind of doubt it. Since the rig is working the way I want it to I decided to not update the Apple stuff either.
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