Right click on the programs and click 'Run as administrator' sounds like a
permissions problem to me.
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"math" <math@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OS Vista Ultimate x32 (spanish)
> Im having problems patching my games. I installed games like for example
> Diablo2, when u connect through the game to blizzards Battlenet the game
> DLs
> the patch, exits the game (so files can be modified) and installs it
> automaticaly . But every time it starts to patch i get an error saying
> the
> file game file is still "in use by another program "and cant be patched.
> Same
> was for Unreal Tournament 2004 Vista keept elling me that the game file is
> in
> use so it cant be patched.
>
> What i noticed is that the warning "the program is beeing used by another
> program" only appears if u run the game (then close it) before patching
> it,
> so it looks like that vista doesnt close properly the games after exiting
> them so the patch prgrams think that the game is still in use.
> So only way to patch is reboting and initialiting the patch, if u open the
> game by mistake the patch will detect the file to patch as beeing used and
> therefore not able to be modifyed
>
> Any ideas?