Royal_Dragoon_Guard Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Hi, apologies if this has already been covered, but I'm new to CMBO on windows XP. Game is installed and fine, but whenever I pop the cd in to play, that loading screen comes up saying Install wizard/install/repair etc. Why? Even if I :mad: :mad: click the icon fast, it still reappears at the end! I dont remember this happening on windows 98 SE, yet the game was sold for windows XP. Any way to stop it doing this each time please? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 never heard of this, but what do i know. did you upgrade to xp or are you installing on a new computer? if an upgrade, you may have to uninstall and reinstall. if you have lots of mods and downloaded stuff, you could move your bmp and scenario folders somewhere safe first. same with any saved games or pbem. then copy the folders over the new install folders. or wait for a better answer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I assume that what you're seeing is the 'autoplay' feature of Windows (which is has been available since Windows 95). This may have been disabled in your Windows 98SE installation. The autoplay feature (actually it is the code on the CD that is run by autoplay) doesn't know whether you have installed CMBO already or not - it doesn't check. You can ignore the attempt to install and just cancel it. You can turn off autoplay in Windows XP, but Microsoft (in their 'infinite wisdom') decided to make it much harder to do. This Microsoft Knowledgebase article is actually about turning autoplay ('autorun') back on in the registry. A little logic will allow you to turn off this feature. However that means any other CD you insert doesn't start up automatically. [ June 01, 2004, 12:20 PM: Message edited by: Schrullenhaft ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royal_Dragoon_Guard Posted June 1, 2004 Author Share Posted June 1, 2004 Thanks for that, Autorun can be a pain at times! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melnibone Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 You can temporarily disable AutoPlay by pressing SHIFT while you insert the CD. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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