This is about as close as I'll get to a Public Service Announcement
Let me tell you a little story, crew. Disasters were happening. Buildings were falling down. People were screaming in the streets.
...Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. But multiple apps on my new PC were just not working. Legitimate applications. Not even an error screen, just nothing, no response. Bioshock, Assassin's Creed, even AVG free weren't working properly! It was very frustrating, and I'd pretty much run out of ideas.
So, like with my old computer, where technology was really passing me by, I ended up playing old stuff, and free stuff, pretty much stuff that was lightweight and didn't need installing, etc. So I ended up installing I Wanna Be the Guy, a MegaMan-ish game that's brutally hard. But that, too, didn't work. But this time, I got my error message! It couldn't write to the temporary folder - you know, the folder that all programs access from time to time to make temporary stuff? Access denied!
So I looked at the temp directory. Some files were read only, and it was over 9 gig, so I did the obvious things. I turned off Read Only. I used the disk cleanup to clean the crap out of there, still nothing. Not allowed to write to it. So I took the next step. I turned off my firewall. Comodo Personal Firewall. Which is awesome, but it's Defense+ feature is somewhat annoying with it's popup windows asking for confirmation. But that didn't make any difference. Note: shutting down the program didn't make any difference.
I was getting frustrated by this point. So I checked out the settings on absolutely everything. And then I tried multiple Defense+ settings, and finally set it to disabled. And voila! Everything suddenly worked. So now, my firewall, which I'm happy with otherwise, is doing exactly what it should and being a firewall, rather than policing every .exe file and temp setting change. And Bioshock works, and AVG works, and Assassin's Creed works - and I'm loving it.
...Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. But multiple apps on my new PC were just not working. Legitimate applications. Not even an error screen, just nothing, no response. Bioshock, Assassin's Creed, even AVG free weren't working properly! It was very frustrating, and I'd pretty much run out of ideas.
So, like with my old computer, where technology was really passing me by, I ended up playing old stuff, and free stuff, pretty much stuff that was lightweight and didn't need installing, etc. So I ended up installing I Wanna Be the Guy, a MegaMan-ish game that's brutally hard. But that, too, didn't work. But this time, I got my error message! It couldn't write to the temporary folder - you know, the folder that all programs access from time to time to make temporary stuff? Access denied!
So I looked at the temp directory. Some files were read only, and it was over 9 gig, so I did the obvious things. I turned off Read Only. I used the disk cleanup to clean the crap out of there, still nothing. Not allowed to write to it. So I took the next step. I turned off my firewall. Comodo Personal Firewall. Which is awesome, but it's Defense+ feature is somewhat annoying with it's popup windows asking for confirmation. But that didn't make any difference. Note: shutting down the program didn't make any difference.
I was getting frustrated by this point. So I checked out the settings on absolutely everything. And then I tried multiple Defense+ settings, and finally set it to disabled. And voila! Everything suddenly worked. So now, my firewall, which I'm happy with otherwise, is doing exactly what it should and being a firewall, rather than policing every .exe file and temp setting change. And Bioshock works, and AVG works, and Assassin's Creed works - and I'm loving it.