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DizConnected 
No need to be sorry. I'm glad to see that it has worked for you and I hope helps others here also. I also first read about the hotfix on Fudzilla so I guess I should give them the credit they are due.
Yes and Fuad is one of my friends...as much one can be without ever meeting someone. I don't know him personally, but I've talked via email with him many times...he's pretty friendly and I think he'd talk to anyone who emailed him. Anyway, I first saw this fix on Nvnews.net and I think they might have gotten it from Anandtech or Dailytech.....can't remember which.
I found it at Anandtech, so I think it was there....not taking anything away from Fudzilla though!
AnandTech: A Messy Transition (Part 3): Vista Buys Some Time
Anyway, it really doesn't matter who posted it first, only that it's out there quite a bit now and I'm happy about it. I'm trying to spread it around wherever I can because I remember what a pain it was trying to get BF2 to work. At the cost of sounding arrogant, I can usually find a way to get any program to work on a computer, provided it's actually supported, but I couldn't get BF2 to run smoothly, without CTD since I built my computer in June.
I hadn't been playing BF2 very much since I got BF2142 last year, but of course when you find out that you can't get something to work, it drives you nuts if you can't get it work, especially with your new PC that you just built! Now that, that's taken care of, I just have one more thing I can't get working. I can't get BF2142 or BF2 working on my new Dell E1505 laptop and it's driving me nuts. It's not so much that I want to game on it, because it's certainly not a gaming computer, but that those games should run and they don't. I can run HL2/CSS, Call of Duty 2, Company of Heroes.....etc. It's got a C2D T7200, 2GB of RAM and a crappy Radeon Mobility X1400 with integrated Sound Blaster Audigy with Vista x32 in it. You'd think if I can get Vista x64 to run BF2 and 2142, Vista x32 would run it. Some people have said that it's not supported, but I don't see that officially and besides, if it can run HL2/CSS, COD2 etc....those games pretty well, then I should be able to run BF2 and BF2142, albeit at medium or even low detail, but it should still run!