Problem playing Starflet Command

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ChuckF

I am having trouble witht e cd rom drive I believe. I
have the game loaded and the all patches installed but,
when I gotth e main screen to play the game I get a
window that asks me to put the game disk in. I put it in
and click the button but it never goes away? I tried
another game, Age of Empires and the disk is not found ??
The cdrom drawyer works, light flashes and is recognized
in the system. I tried re-installing the cdrom through
windows and problem still exists ... It seems like
everything is fine but windows will not read information
from the disk ... Please let me know if this is a known
bug or something "special" with my Pc.

Thanks for the HELP!!
 
Hi Chuck,

When running a restricted user account with fast user switching under Windows XP,
some games will not start correctly. The game requests that the original disk be
placed in the drive, even if it is already present.

To remedy this issue, download and run this fix for Windows XP English Version:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/WinXPHome/Patch/1.0/WXP/EN-US/updatesecdrv.exe

If that patch doesn't resolve the issue, there are several troubleshooting steps
outlined in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=228985 Another trick
that I found sometimes works is to make the limited account an administrator
account and run that game once. This will allow the registry settings for that user
to be created, and they will still exist after the account is changed back. Good luck! :-)

One last tip for Kazaa users, is to uninstall Kazaa and the game, and then install
the game again. Kazaa has been known to prevent games from starting.

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| I am having trouble witht e cd rom drive I believe. I
| have the game loaded and the all patches installed but,
| when I gotth e main screen to play the game I get a
| window that asks me to put the game disk in. I put it in
| and click the button but it never goes away? I tried
| another game, Age of Empires and the disk is not found ??
| The cdrom drawyer works, light flashes and is recognized
| in the system. I tried re-installing the cdrom through
| windows and problem still exists ... It seems like
| everything is fine but windows will not read information
| from the disk ... Please let me know if this is a known
| bug or something "special" with my Pc.
|
| Thanks for the HELP!!
 
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