2019-05-16, 09:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 2019-05-16, 10:03 AM by Holy_Diver.)
EDITED: Instead of "starting over" one option is to use SVN Revert (Tortoise SVN) or delete the project folder if you did something there.
Did you run SETUP.BAT and START.BAT as Administrator? Are you running "Moonlight Sword" (SOM_EX.exe) via the Start Menu?
The install registry location is at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\FROMSOFTWARE\SOM\INSTALL but maybe if you installed SOM now or originally as Administrator you might have another section under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. I don't know.
There's nothing wrong with SOM, so you cannot solve your problems by trying to change SOM. What's wrong is your computer, so you should focus on that.
With Microsoft's "regedit" tool, if you find an HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FROMSOFTWARE key, delete that. I don't know what the effects would be if so.
P.S. You should never use Run As Administrator with software. Software shouldn't require it unless it's broken. You need to understand when you do that you are using a different user account. It's like if you logged out of Windows and logged in as a new user account. Nowadays Windows does a thing where the screen goes black and you have to agree to a prompt, that should make it never necessary to do things with Administrator.
EDITED: A corollary to this is don't manually put files in your Program Files folder. I tried to do that once with SOM and it didn't work. It's just an idea, in case that's what you've done to yourself. I would put SOM in my C:\Users\Michael\ home folder.
Did you run SETUP.BAT and START.BAT as Administrator? Are you running "Moonlight Sword" (SOM_EX.exe) via the Start Menu?
The install registry location is at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\FROMSOFTWARE\SOM\INSTALL but maybe if you installed SOM now or originally as Administrator you might have another section under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. I don't know.
There's nothing wrong with SOM, so you cannot solve your problems by trying to change SOM. What's wrong is your computer, so you should focus on that.
With Microsoft's "regedit" tool, if you find an HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FROMSOFTWARE key, delete that. I don't know what the effects would be if so.
P.S. You should never use Run As Administrator with software. Software shouldn't require it unless it's broken. You need to understand when you do that you are using a different user account. It's like if you logged out of Windows and logged in as a new user account. Nowadays Windows does a thing where the screen goes black and you have to agree to a prompt, that should make it never necessary to do things with Administrator.
EDITED: A corollary to this is don't manually put files in your Program Files folder. I tried to do that once with SOM and it didn't work. It's just an idea, in case that's what you've done to yourself. I would put SOM in my C:\Users\Michael\ home folder.