Game won't start

[alexti]

Originally posted by Raven 1701:
I don't have anything running but the games I try and play. If you don't have any suggestions on how to makke the game run please stay off this thread. I don't care about how people love or hate other os's.

Have you bothered to check the list of processes you have running before you're claiming you are not running anything but the games? You'll find quite a bunch of processes running which you're not aware of. Most of them are useless for you (if you just play games), some may be harmful and only few are really needed. The problem is to find which ones are which. Good plan is to shutdown all of them and then reenable only those you know why you need. You can find more detailed information on MS website and XP support Groups. This is not very simple job, that's why comments that it takes plenty of efforts and knowledge to make XP run well.