- Have you closed all programs running in the background?
- reboot the PC
- Once you are back to Windows, press ctrl-alt-del.
- From the "Close Program" window that opens, the only two items that should appear in this list are Explorer and Systray.
- To temporarily disable all other programs, highlight the first item in the list and click end task.
- Continue this process until you have closed all programs except Explorer and Systray.
- Start the game again.
- Have you performed standard maintenance on your PC?
- Run Scandisk
- Click Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools
- Select Scandisk
- Select your hard drive. If you have more than one, you should scan each drive individually.
- Click Standard
- Check Automatically fix errors.
- Click Start
- Run Defrag
- Click Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools
- Select Disk Defragmenter
- Select the hard drive you wish to defrag and click ok.
- Remove files from the temp directory
- Reboot the PC
- Once back in Windows, Right-click My Computer
- Left-click Explore
- From the right pane of Windows Explorer, double click C:\
- Double-click the Windows Folder, then find and double click the TEMP folder.
- Remove all files from this folder.
- Restart the Computer
- Empty the Recycle bin and run the installation again.