Windows 7 keeping me from playing S.O. ?

[God-I-Suck]

I got Stick Online on my new laptop with Windows 7. I turned off firewall and ran it as an administrator. But it always says, "StickOnline.exe was not found or is invalid. See www.stick-online.com for more info." I am pretty sure I have all the files.

Help me out please. (:

[Seifer]

Not sure. I've no issue with win7.

[Bloodseeker]

I am on Win7 and I have no problems running SO. It runs smooth and I haven't got an error by now.

[Meiun]

This should be a pretty obvious thing to check for, but you are remembering to extract the files from the zip archive before running them, and not changing the file names right? I too am using Windows 7 (64 bit) and have no issues.

[Seifer]

Step 1, Aquire Win7 disk from friend or something.
Step 2, format drive and install fresh copy of win7, thereby getting rid of all the JUNK that comes from laptop manufacturers.
Step 3, turn off UAC
Step 4, run S.O

[sk8terboi]

yea its not ur windows 7 my laptop has windows 7 and it plays perfect on their.

[God-I-Suck]

Wow.. it didn't work just because I put a space between "StickOnline." -.-

Thx for help.

[Lingus]

Step 1, Aquire Win7 disk from friend or something.
Step 2, format drive and install fresh copy of win7, thereby getting rid of all the JUNK that comes from laptop manufacturers.
Step 3, turn off UAC
Step 4, run S.O

I'm sorry, but that would be ridiculous. There's a lot of stuff on the laptop install that you NEED. Such as drivers for the laptops periphals. It would be much easier to uninstall the "junk" that comes on the laptop install than to reinstall what would be an illegal version of windows.

Not to mention there's never a need to turn off UAC. It does cause an issue if it pops up with keeping a connection open to SO, but if you don't ever do anything that prompts UAC while playing SO you should be fine. I have never turned UAC off and other than the afformentioned issue, I can play SO just fine with it. Furthermore, UAC is a great security measure, so it shouldn't be turned off unless it is absolutely necessary.

[yottabyte]

Lingus is right, but I have to agree that there are indeed a lot of crap on new computers. I haven't ever bought a computer myself but back in the day you used to get CDs with the OS and drivers.

If you have the drivers and OS install CD, then why not. That way you can be sure there are no junk..

[Lingus]

Usually the install CD they provide comes with everything they included when you got the computer. They probably even use the very same install CD to set up your computer.

[Meiun]

I actually find UAC to be totally useless for anyone who actually knows what they are doing and has proper protection on his computer to begin with. Otherwise it is just annoying. There really is no time where it would ever be essential in preventing any issue that either A) simply involves preventing the user from being an idiot (which actually is a good feature to have for many people who arn't great with computers), or B) stopping something that never should have got far enough to where UAC should have to intervene to begin with.

But back on topic.. Seeing as the problem is resolved, unless anyone else has any issues with this that needs discussing further I will likely go ahead and close this topic soon.

[Lingus]

To be fair I find UAC less intrusive than what I have seen some people using. Such as noscript for Firefox. Seriously? Stopping all scripts from running on your browser and then having to manually allow each and every one every time you visit a page? I'd rather let it all run, and if one decides to try and install something on my computer UAC will catch it. Other than that I rarely ever have a problem with it.

But yea, sorry to go off topic.

[Scotty]

Such as noscript for Firefox. Seriously?

I used to use similar add-ons, but then realized I am making it way harder on myself.  True, there are websites out there that should take a shotgun to the cajones because they abuse javascript and flash as though no one will care, but for the most part, it gets real old having to go through and manually allow every script you want.  Not to mention that when it actually comes to development, now more than ever is it required to double your work if you want to include any sort of javascript or flash.  Sure it can be disabled completely without add-ons in any browser, but now that people want that slight performance boost by ridding of ads, and it's so easy and well known to acquire and install, a developer has to double up his work and accommodate those who opt to disable scripts entirely, giving them a website that will run without javascript.

[Seifer]

Just play smart. I don't have UAC or Noscript on my firefox, and yet I have not had any issues with malicious software or ads, or adbars being installed. Unless your surfing some pretty shady sites or porno crap, chances are your not going to run into any issues. I surf all over the place but I also go to sites that are obviously not going to cause an Issue.