no sorry it didnt
btw i found a download of all these usefull tools im jus going through them now like FLScan
http://uid-90dd03c4dd0d1232.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B9F83663A46C5310!531.entry
mainly trying to see wat is causing issue
and i cant find FLSpew so i dunno wat to do bout that

lol i did notice
i was actually installing the game while i was typing that last topic up.
Yea i went to the Game explorer window, clicked on options and ticked Never check online for updates or news etc
and i unticked Download art and info etc and Collect most recently played game info
Weird thing is Freelancer still came up so there must be another thing/s to disable this….

If its coming to a windows reinstall im not going to do it
Everything else works perfectly and i dont want to do this
Also i dont even hav the windows 7 disc (as this comp came with Windows 7 preinstalled)
I am still bothered by this issue and ill still hav a look around to see what is happening and im downloadin a fresh Freelancer torrent which Bullwinkle recommended
Other than that… thats about as far as ill go with this issue ill stick to the laptop and i dont plan on doing any disk partitioning and reinstallations to get Freelancer workin
I’ll stick to the old laptop from now on and jus play FL from there.
(that is if there is no other option)
I’m not giving up on Freelancer im jus giving up on making it work on this computer…i am actually thinking of buying myself a new laptop for school and university when i go on so i think thats going to be my gaming laptop.
But as for this comp i dont want to loose any of my work or my parents
Thanks StarTrader for you useful info on that
And Bullwinkle ill pm you on Skype probably tommorrow (as its weekend i hav the day off nothing happening tommorrow so im free all day)
See ya then

Sorry bout the delay Bullwinkle i hav sent a reply now

Yea it should of worked but i hav now followed exactly your instructions Star Trader and they have not worked. I know this is really annoying cause its i know its supposed to work. Could there be fault in a Windows application dll file like rundll32.exe that could cause the problem?
Ok ive come to the point i think i need some remote support with this issue dunno who should do this though……

Ok I’ll take your in your brilliant instructions startrader and I’ll try it out after school tommorrow. If this fails to work I’ll post up here again so I can give details of my skype account so that you may see in full detail wat I am getting. I dunno but i think you may be getting the wrong impression it not a problem with installing or running the game. The problem is initiating the game it’s like the game application is refusing to start. I know like I sound a bit like a noob and not following instructions properly but I mayhav caused something on my system to refuse play the game….ah it’s so hard to explain
sorry bout last post I sounded like I was givin up. But this issue is really starting to get on my nerves. I haven’t found any other problems like this so I musta caused this myself when the account got deleted. Anyway it’s getting late but ill get onto fixing this tommorrow thanks very much on your support.
Ps and yes I hav installed on adminstrator as in right click on setup install as administrator option and I hav deleted the my games folder in documents even though there was only borderlands and bioshock in there (which don’t really care bout)

I think ive tried as much as i can do on this issue
All i can gather up is that Windows 7 refuses to cooperate with some past games.
And i can only see from the report myself is that Freelancer.exe is an incompatible program with windows 7 it may of been caused by an update but oh well. I’ll jus stick to playing FL on Laptop.
Thanks for the help ill do a few small twigs with trying to make it work but ill probably come to the conclusion to move on and try out a few newer games.
A bit sad really Freelancer was the like to first PC game i got and ive loved it ever since and had enjoyed playing on the Discovery servers for the past 3 years but i think ill move on and try out some newer space mmos like JGE (when they decide to release it lol)
Thanks very much for your time and efforts and hope this doesnt happen to many or any others.

Hmm highly doubt its a Trojan like i scanned my comp several times with McAfee and Avast and no viruses were found.
No the problem i had was a fault in Windows 7 its a bug which is pretty common as ive heard. A few of my mates hav had the same problem too when they upgraded to 7
I contacted Microsoft for a solution and they told me to go to this site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215

and i was able to fix it in like half an hour.
Its still very strange i can manage to install and play every other application except FL (which is kinda the only thing i do want to play)
Oh and i jus remembered i forgot to mention this may be the important info you need to know of this problem.
Ok after i had made a new account and all and Freelancer refused to install i decided to uninstall and install again and i did the restart thing
When i restarted CHK DSK came up and asked that C drive needed to be checked for consistancy so i jus let it go ahead.
As it was scanning i noticed a whole lot of files where being recovered or i dunno but i noticed that some of thexse files were like Li_fighter_dmg_engine.3db etc and other files which i recognized are part of FL they were being recovered or orphaned.
So yea i hope this helps shed some light into the situation
I dont really want to go to horror situation of restoring the Factory Recovery image settings on this comp. I spose if there isnt much of an easier solution ill jus stick to playing on the old Thinkpad. Kinda works but jus annoying cause the graphics adapter is only like 64mb and really laggy.
Anyway thanks so much for the help so far and early responses

Yea i hav tried to run it in compatibility mode several hundred times not workin
I highly doubt any changes would of been done by my parents they dont do much on the comp except doing emails and internet browsing and word preocessin
They havent changed anythin on this comp
Nah the only thing i see is that causes FL to fail is the account problem i had.

Ok ill start from the beginning
Ever since i got this comp i hav been able to play FL and Discovery. This is HP p6120a got it last year in November with Windows preinstalled. I had a few graphics issues like writing and words stuffing up and going havok over the screen (anyway i solved it by upgrading the driver on the onboard graphics chip and this was before i got a new graphics card in January so this is most likely irrelevent).

This problem only started to happen about 3 weeks ago.
I got problems when ever i logged on like “User Account failed to log on” etc i went searching on the net and tried to find a solution. One day it jus got real bad and it refused to log on at all. So i went onto another account and looked for a solution and the only real easy way out was to delete the account and make a new one. So i jus went ahead and retrieved all my documents through the other account and put them onto a new account. I havent had any account problems and so on all programs work fine except for Freelancer which doesnt start at all.

Prevouisly i had FL installed to a portable HDD and it worked fine off that. But when i got probs with the game after making a new account i unistalled if off the HDD. I tried to install it again but into the normal Program files place it installs fine and i restart and all relog in and all everything loads fine no problems and its only when i try to open Freelancer.exe it doesnt do anythin and windows automatically (in the background) files an application error report as like one i hav posted above. Also i have uninstalled all mods and the FLMM and FAM etc, So even with mods activated it doesnt work aswell.
Ok so it doesnt work and all ive done is Uninstall and install again and still doesnt work. Ive gone and downloaded two more compies of Freelancer and they dont solve the issue so theres nothing wrong with the cd.
Also on my very ancient IBM thinkpad which is about 8 years old freelancer installs fine and works although very laggy and im able to play Discovery on that so theres nothin major bout my account gettin deleted.
So i hav gone and done a few reg editing not too much only searched for Freelancer and deleted the entries where there was C:/Program files/Microsoft Games/Freelancer etc and
a few entries from F;/Games/Freelancer (my HDD pathfile)
Installed again today still not working…
Finally i dont want to go to Restore and i know that this wont solve the issue all it would mainly do is take me back to User Account Failing problem and also the comp is used by my parents for work and its been a while since Freelancer Worked properly
Oh and as i mentioned above ive used TuneUp Utilities to clean the registry and and Defrag it also aswell on the C drive
So hope most of this information can help you solve the problem thanks heaps in return

hmmm not sure bout regediting and i might need a little guidence in this procedure
i did search for Freelancer in regedit and found 176 results and most didnt seem to go to the game……so i dont want to kill anythin else.
But it jus seems to me that this is an application error i dont know how to solve these problems but if the registry is somehow stuffing it up please help me to do this
Thanks in return
Oh i hav mcaffee and i can jus disable it but doesnt do much

Nah its not there, i know it only appears once the game has started.
In this case ive deleted it after an uninstall and when ive installed FL again it hasnt appeared. I have heard of that option thanks though mate
Yea i still havent managed to get Freelancer to start
Still not working though

Oh yea
Ive installed freelancer in several different locations aswell like in program files and on two other external hard drives (all at a different time)
Yea i hav Windows 7 and ive disabled UAC and Firewalls to try and make this work but no luck
The comp is bout 6 months old had windows 7 preinstalled
Its weird it worked perfectly for bout 2 months and the next day its was corrupted.(This was when i had it installed in program files).
And Yes i am an Administrator and ive installed it on the 3 other accounts i hav on this comp
Nah all i can get from that event viewer is that Freelancer is Corrupt Application Refuses to open
So annoying i wonder if there is a workaround
oh and i forgot to mention i hav tried all the patches and workarounds i could find
Thanks for the early response mate

HELP
I hav been able to Play freelancer on this fairly new comp for the past 3 months now its not working
Ive run out of ideas on how to fix this issue and i cant find any solutions to the problem
Ive reinstalled Freelancer a hundred times and it refuses to start ive even gone and dowloaded 2 torrents and they arent working either. Ive done disks check defrags and registry defrags and cleaners using TuneUp Utilites.
All that happens when i try to open the Freelancer.exe file the mouse wheel comes up for a bit then disappears. I looked on the task manager while doing this and Freelancer.exe comes up for like 3 seconds then disappears
I found this in the event viewer

Faulting application name: Freelancer.exe, version: 1.0.1223.11, time stamp: 0x00534d69
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x1728
Faulting application start time: 0x01cae82bdbf9b52f
Faulting application path: C:\Users\Kevin\Desktop\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 1d6a4d5e-541f-11df-b597-002421b0bd37

I cant find any solutions pm me if you need me to give more info cause i hav no idea what to do
Thanks