Gotta love it. Just tried to download Halo2 on my system and everything went Haywire. When I tried to run it, I got a message that I needed to have Vista to run the program. When I tried to uninstall it it said I needed to have Vista to run the program. Silly me THOUGHT I was running Vista the whole time..... SO I go from the DVD and get to the Live site to register where it tells me my key is no good. Time to call Microsoft............

SO the dude gets on and I give him control and he starts slashing and burning his way through the program to get it uninstalled. Gets down to the registry and slashes and burns his way through that. Ok, he says, put the disk in and I'll show you how to install a program, (arrogant SOB). Put the disk in and immediately we get an error message that there are now files missing. "Some important files needed to run this game are missing from the installation directory" is the direct quote from the message error. I somehow doubt he was able to delete files from the DVD so I'm thinking Attila slashed and burned his way maybe a bit to far into my registry lol. Long and short of it is that it's beyond his level and someone will get back to me on Monday. IE, it's Saturday morning right now in India and none of the engineers will be back til Monday. So here's MY thought.............

I just created a restore point so iff my "thought" turns out to be a bad one I hit system restore and I'm back to where I am at this very moment. So.........

Can I not just hit system restore and go back to where I was BEFORE I installed the Halo? If I do, will that take care of the new admin account he added to my computer? Will it replace all the stuff he may have erased from my registry that he SHOULDN'T have erased? I'm a little fuzzy on system restore because it says it leaves the documents and stuff alone, but what about programs and extra added Admin accounts? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?



LOL Methinks thata no one is here this fine Friday night and I'm gonna get impatient and slash and burn my way through a system restore.

Oh, Mr. Brainiac also decided that maybe I had too much memory so he adjusted what windows can see. Will that go back to it's normal value if I do a sys restore as well?

Hi Bubba.

LOL, what a mess.

Make backups of anything you do not want to lose just in case you have to end up resorting to a clean install to repair Attila's slash and dash special.

I would try doing a System Restore to a point before you installed Halo. From there you can remove any left over non system files that were not removed from what Halo or Attila added.

Hopefully that will get you back to square one again.

Good luck to you,
Shawn

Bubba,

You will probably just need to do a phone activation to get your Vista activated again. I would wait until you got everything finished and running smooth first though. Within 30 days of course.

Activate Vista by Phone


On some items, you may need to take ownership of them first before you can delete them.

Take Ownership of file

Hope this helps for now. See ya later tonight.

Shawn