Auto protect on folders..

[Rellik]

all my folders on my harddrive gets auto protected, including my camelot folders wich means that i cant play daoc.. cuse it has to save some stuff in the camelot folder when playing wich locks up my computer and leads to me going ld every 15 min or so
anyways! the problem is that i cant get this folder protection of.. as i said befor it auto protects all the folders on my harddrive and if i uncheck the little block that says write protect windows or what ever checks it again.
So i cant uncheck that little box and if i cant do that i cant play :touch:
anyone know how i can get this crap to get unchecked? cuse i dont wanna ld every 15 min

 

[gunner440]

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a virus maybe?

unchecking the root drive should uncheck everything inside..

 

[Rellik]

just did a ad-aware scan
allso i did a scan with norton antivirus after i installed the latest patch.
so i doubt it is a virus..
and when you say "unchecking the root drive should uncheck everything inside.."
do you mean unchecking the harddrive?
if you mean that how do i do that in win xp?

 

[gunner440]

yeah i meant that but i only realised windows xp doesnt have that option so ignore that

you could try going into C: folder and "unprotect" all the subfolders there...

if it still doesnt work try some other virus scanner as it does sound like one

 

[Rellik]

hmmm
dosent work un checking all of them..
and i got all the latest patches for norton antivirus wich i hear is the best antivirus etc.. and just did a scan and it found nothing as i just said :eek2:

 

[gunner440]

messed up registry or something?

have u tried manually checking the registry? run regedit to see if any "weird" progs start up which sometimes even norton can't pick up?

 

[Rellik]

huuum...
didnt find any "wierd" programs in the regedit..
alltho i didnt look through all the folders that is in the reg. -.-
anyone know what the problem might be?

 

[plomien]

REINSTALL WIN XP THAT MIGHT HELPoops caps

 

[Rellik]

ugh cba tbh!
anyone else know a way :O

 

[Shu_ayala]

You need to specify exactly what you mean by Folder protection....

Possibly even get us a screenshot to look at and see...

It could be many things

 

[Bagloor]

You can use this tool to check for wierd programs, it checks the most known places where you can autostart program under Windows

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml

 

[Rellik]

i found a cupple of "strange" "wierd" whatever in the reg and deleted them..
still i cant uncheck the folder protect.. iam thinking it might be some thing with the windows XP "home" edition.. uke:

 

[Moriath]

boot from a dos disk and remove the protection with dos commands and delete

attrib should be the dos command attrib -r i think for read only .. its been a while .. -s for system folder erm do a google search but heehee doing it in dos should work and bypass all the crappy windows stuff

 

[gunner440]

lol it's still there?

bleh a format would be quicker at this rate...


and less of a headache but remember to backup important stuff beforehand

 

[Rellik]

formating is a last option and then i mean LAST option..
i got lots of programs and installing it all over whould take a long time..
Tried the Dos thing.. when you write attrib on the camelot folder it dosent have a R or a r only has a A.. so i cant remove the R thing.
Anyone got a clue?
emailed GoA, Microsoft and Dell :touch:

 

[gunner440]

formatting isnt that bad

i hate it as well having to reinstall 10-15gig/format

make a .txt file and make note of stuff needed to be reinstalled as well as cd-keys etc

helps loads

 

[Shu_ayala]

Being as you didnt answer my question about what sort of protection it has on it....

I'll guess that you mean the ReadOnly option on folders on your drives in WinXP. (which is greyed out?)

All winxp computers do this by defualt... but it doesnt not stop the directories being written to. Its even on my temp folder which obviously gets written to fairly often.

So your problems with daoc crashing probably arent connected with this.

Try creating a new file in your DAoC directory that your having a problem with - I'm certain it will make one fine.... just to prove that the read only isnt affecting DAoC becuase then at least you'll be able to forget about the protection thing and hopefully find out what really is the problem.

 

[Mimen]

Remove shitty norton anti virus imo. thats probably whats protecting your folders incase of virii, and since daoc updates ur files from the net it probably thinks THATS a virus.


I hate norton anti virus, it stinks.

I go Commando

 

[Shu_ayala]

Well its not norton anti virus becuase I run that on both my DAoC systems and it doesnt have any issues....

 

[Rellik]

well i sent a email to goa about the game crashing and i did a side note about that i had folder protection on all folders.
This is the reply i got.

Response (Community Manager) 03/27/2004 15:21 PM
Greetings,

In order to play Dark Age of Camelot, you cannot leave the Dark Age of Camelot folder write protected. Some information needs to be writen in files and if the program cannot do that, then you will encounter problems.

Yours sincerely,
---------------------------------------------
European Dark Age of Camelot Community Manager

well i dunno but i still get errors when playing daoc..
the game freezes for 10-15 secs then i got LD.. i dunno if it is the folder protection or if its just my comp that sucks...
My specs are
2.2 ghz p4
512 ddr ram
Geforce ti 4600
got all the latest drivers for the gfx card and latest direct X etc..

 

[gunner440]

^


u forgot to mention you cannot prevent the folder from being write protected though

they would have misunderstood you


edit

just reformat

it'll save you time

 

[Bagloor]

all my folders on my harddrive gets auto protected, including my camelot folders wich means that i cant play daoc.. cuse it has to save some stuff in the camelot folder when playing wich locks up my computer and leads to me going ld every 15 min or so
anyways! the problem is that i cant get this folder protection of.. as i said befor it auto protects all the folders on my harddrive and if i uncheck the little block that says write protect windows or what ever checks it again.
So i cant uncheck that little box and if i cant do that i cant play :touch:
anyone know how i can get this crap to get unchecked? cuse i dont wanna ld every 15 min

I don't think the little block that says Read-only is your problem. It must be som grafic bug or something. I just noticed I got it on all my directories too and I have no problem at all playing or changeing any files. And if I check the files there is no Read-only on them. And it's the same on both my PC:s with Windows XP. But it is strange tho

 

[Rellik]

win xp sucks..
anyways anyone else getting these kind of problems??
when playing like 10-15 min the game freezes up for 20-30 sec then it un freeezes and your ld...
i cant realy figure out what else could possibly be wrong if it isent the folder protection

 

[Healer McHeal]

i used to get that, but it wasnt all the time, just some times, does it happen on any other games? and by that i mean other ones that use all your memory etc, it could be a memory fault where it hits a part of the memory and it locks.

 

[gunner440]

win xp sucks..
anyways anyone else getting these kind of problems??
when playing like 10-15 min the game freezes up for 20-30 sec then it un freeezes and your ld...
i cant realy figure out what else could possibly be wrong if it isent the folder protection

that doesnt look like a folder protection problem
u 100% sure about your internet connection?

it could be other processes briefly taking up cpu usage making daoc go slow or even freeze

could be a lot of other things

 

[Rellik]

its not any thing wrong with my connection..
iam on a LAN right now and iam having the EXACT same problems so we can count that out..
and this mostly happends in daoc alltho it has happend from time to time in other games.. alltho not even half as often .

 

[Bagloor]

I have seen simular problems and that was the on board Network card on an Asus motherboard. A new nic fixed the problems for him. And it only affected the DAoC client.

 

[Rellik]

just had the same problems in wc3..