Here's one for you....

[fstroupe]

I downloaded the demo to LOTR "Return of the King". I extracted all files to my E: drive, and they didn't go in a folder automatically, as normally happens. Now, the icon for my E: drive is a gold ring, and if you click on it, a damn EA Games autorun opens the installation file for the game. The only way I can get into the drive is right click on the icon, and click "open".

There's nothing to uninstall, deleting just keeps the autorun from doing anything, and renaming the drive does just that.

I assume it is a registry entry. Couldn't do anything about it with regcleaner, and I am terrified to do regedit without step by step instructions.

Any suggestions? (besides formatting and installing Linux :wink: ) Formatting IS NOT out of the question....

[KryoNexus]

if it's win xp, might want to do a system restore.

[fstroupe]

if it's win xp, might want to do a system restore.

I thought of that, but had waited a few weeks before thinking about it. I personally love system restore, regardless of how many people don't.

[KryoNexus]

i'd go for it....worst that can happen is that you loose all of your data and have to reinstall....well i guess by some fluke, you could kill a hard drive or something ;-)

[fstroupe]

Formatting worked.

[KryoNexus]

erm....i thought you were trying to not do that

[Beemer]

It usually does :wink:

[playafly187]

erm....i thought you were trying to not do that

no no, he said it was NOT out of the question ;)

[KryoNexus]

Any suggestions? (besides formatting and installing Linux :wink: )

sorry, i saw this and must've stopped reading (i tend to do this sometimes with the last sentence in a paragraph if i start thinking about an answer to the question).

Formatting IS NOT out of the question....

guess i should've kept reading to read this part ;-)

[Beemer]

Any suggestions? (besides formatting and installing Linux :wink: )

sorry, i saw this and must've stopped reading (i tend to do this sometimes with the last sentence in a paragraph if i start thinking about an answer to the question).

Formatting IS NOT out of the question....

guess i should've kept reading to read this part ;-)

Maybe your the one who needs to overclock his brain.

[KryoNexus]

it's already overheating as it is.

[Beemer]

You should have went pentium that way you would have hyper-threading for those times you need to muti-task :D

[siq]

you guys post more dialogue then anyone on here. the real catcher is that you guys WORK TOGETHER.... man. i thought you might get your fill of one another at work.. ;)

back on topic. i'm surprised you didn't catch that kryo. you're usually pretty uptight about detail ;)

[silenze]

lol

Did you look for an 'autorun.inf' in your E: drive? Sounds like it somehow figured it to be a CD device... but you formatted anyway.

[fstroupe]

lol

Did you look for an 'autorun.inf' in your E: drive? Sounds like it somehow figured it to be a CD device... but you formatted anyway.

There was a folder and an icon, but the icon for the E: drive became a shortcut for for it. Deleting the folder and icon and clicking the E: drive just caused an error.

You're right about the CD device, it acted like the autorun icon you get when you have a game in the CD drive.

As the formatting finished, the gold ring went away, and the regular hdd icon reappeared.

It was pretty simple, I had everything on the drive in folders excepting the LOTR stuff I extracted, which I just deleted, and moved the other stuff to another drive temporarily.