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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5340044" data-attributes="member: 41321">Woot, I seem to have gotten Icewind Dale working!&nbsp; The problem was definitely my antivirus program.&nbsp; I had to dig through its settings before I saw that turning off &quot;Antivirus Auto Protect&quot; doesn't actually turn off all of its protection.&nbsp; There's another feature buried in it called &quot;antispyware&quot; that's not as easily disabled.&nbsp; Once I shut that off it finally allowed IWD to run.To summarize what I had to do:1) Run the setup.exe program as administrator (not sure if this part was necessary, since I have UAC turned all the way down, but I did it anyway)2) Install the latest patch for IWD (I think it was 1.06)3) Go into Norton Security Suite -&gt; Settings -&gt; Antivirus -&gt; Antispyware and Updates, then turn Antispyware off.I did not need to set any Windows 7 compatibility settings at all, though I did tell it to run Icewind Dale as Administrator (again, not sure if that was necessary, but I did it just in case).The really bizzare thing is that I slowly re-enabled all of the different types of spyware/adware categories in Norton, and even after I had all of them re-enabled the game still worked!&nbsp; I even rebooted, and it continued to work.I wonder if the part Norton was objecting to was that bit in the beginning that asks you to register the product.&nbsp; In the process of trying to figure out what kind of adware Norton thought it was I started and stopped the program enough times that I was able to make that nag box go away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 5340044, member: 41321"] Woot, I seem to have gotten Icewind Dale working! The problem was definitely my antivirus program. I had to dig through its settings before I saw that turning off "Antivirus Auto Protect" doesn't actually turn off all of its protection. There's another feature buried in it called "antispyware" that's not as easily disabled. Once I shut that off it finally allowed IWD to run. To summarize what I had to do: 1) Run the setup.exe program as administrator (not sure if this part was necessary, since I have UAC turned all the way down, but I did it anyway) 2) Install the latest patch for IWD (I think it was 1.06) 3) Go into Norton Security Suite -> Settings -> Antivirus -> Antispyware and Updates, then turn Antispyware off. I did not need to set any Windows 7 compatibility settings at all, though I did tell it to run Icewind Dale as Administrator (again, not sure if that was necessary, but I did it just in case). The really bizzare thing is that I slowly re-enabled all of the different types of spyware/adware categories in Norton, and even after I had all of them re-enabled the game still worked! I even rebooted, and it continued to work. I wonder if the part Norton was objecting to was that bit in the beginning that asks you to register the product. In the process of trying to figure out what kind of adware Norton thought it was I started and stopped the program enough times that I was able to make that nag box go away. [/QUOTE]

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