Vista Help Section?

[Mad Baron]

Okay, nobody responded, but I finally found the Search option here, and looked for Vista, and found a ''million'' options, all confusing to me.

An old (now distant) neighbor of mine, Kragkcn (also here at Blitz), gave me some simple tips, and I had 2 out of 3 games loaded within 30 minutes.

Bottom Line:

There seems to be a lot of confusing ways to make CM and Vista work. But I think if you buy a machine off the store shelf (and didn't have it built by somebody piece by piece) it is easier to make old games work with Vista, following their actually pretty easy steps.

I have encountered some problems with AK, but BO and BB loaded very easily, including all 3 patches for BB.

Control Panel
Additional Options
How to Install Programs
Make Older Programs Run
Open Program Compatibility Wizard
load from CD ROM
XP
256 colors
Run as Administrator
etc. etc.

Just do NOT save/load to Program Files, or PBEM will not work for some reason.

Save/Load to any other location. I chose Desktop, and then dragged all the game files to a new folder there, which I will re-locate later.

Bottom line again, I am up and running with BO and BB right now. I may have to tinker more with AK later...but it all worked rather easily!

I hope this message gets loaded to some sort of Vista Help Center eventually. Because CM can definitely work well on Vista! And I am certainly no computer whiz-kid!~haha