At MY WITS END with Win7.....

[EJ]

Whomever knowledgeable,

I've been following all the advice given by Shrapnel Forums but NOW having THE FOLLOWING ISSUE: I had a pbem running then ended it using alt-ctrl-del. Now when I tried to restart the game it shows the start screen BUT will not run. I run the game in windowed mode. I checked my video card driver for an update at the manufacture's website and it's supposedly up to date. Prior to the problem I did the following:
1)Manually uninstalled the game
2)defragged my hard drive
3)Installed the game on the drive(away from program files the default) to a folder I created. What more can I do to get this game to work hassle free? Could my Avast antivirus be affecting the game? Is it possible I may have a bad copy of Win7 installed on my Toshiba laptop?---