Game won't Launch without wireless connection active

Strange issue, Wes. Have you tried installing it without any LAN active on
the laptop?
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Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP
Associate Expert
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"Wes" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:09139ED0-513E-44C0-A22D-66C61947A2DF@microsoft.com...

> I have a strangle problem that I can't seem to resolve. I have an HP

laptop (3month old) with a D-Link wireless adaptor that connect to a Dlink
wireless router. My other PC is a Dell and it is connect to the router and
has two printers attached (to the Dell). I installed James Bond Nightfire
on the laptop and it works just fine as long as the wireless connect is
active. If I start the machine without the network connection the game will
not launch. If I plug the card in, then the game works. I had a similar
problems with Backyard Baseball and I discovered that if I created a local
printer for the laptop and made it the default printer, then that program
launched without having to have the wireless connection active. I assume
that the print spooler was busy trying to intialize the networked printer
and that was causing the game failure. It would seem that there is some
process that is required to launch for network usage that inhibits the
launching of my game. As far as the network goes, I have simple
file/printer sharing active and I am using Alarmzone to "trust" the two
machines. And, obviously, this game is not networked, I installed it stand
alone so I could take it with me, but it only works when I can connect to my
LAN.

> Suggestions?
>