What the hell is going on here?

[Gurck]

I'm just about ready to walk into ID software or Micro$oft headquarters with guns blazing here... I bought Doom 3 today and, after installing it & putting in cd 1 to play it, I get "Please insert cd #1"... it's in there already! So I reboot, try my other optical drive, no dice. I google it and it turns out this is a common proble, way to go ID. A few people who called ID say they were told their best bet was a no cd crack :roll: Yay, I get to go on a file sharing network and download an exe from someone I don't know... I downloaded it, but I did not run it. I decided it was too shady to risk and tried to delete it - but WinBlows decides it needs this file and I'm unable to delete it. I rebooted into safe mode and got the same thing. I went into safe mode's dos prompt and got the same thing again (running process needs it). I tried shutting down each & every running process (and got some funky warning messages) but am still unable to delete it. Since I use winXP I don't have a true dos prompt, and since my drive is formatted in NTFS I can't get a true prompt from a '98 boot disk. I'm more concerned with why this file would burrow itself into my os when I never ran it than with the ~8mb of disc space though. Truth be told, I'm more concerned with that than with not being able to run Doom 3, as I'm optomistic about finding my way around that... what's with this file though?

 

[Gurck]

Bah, it figures the minute I post this I find the solution. I did google it, honest! I just hadn't clicked through a few pages of results yet... At any rate hopefully this might help anyone else who might have had something like this happen, and if anyone knows a way around the problem with Doom 3 I'm listening.

 

[Gurck]

Whee got that too, megagames.com under game fixes

 

[Andvari]

Lol, so does this mean that if I took one of my .mp3s and renamed it to an .exe it would not be deletable? That's hilariously awesome, I think.