Huh, ok so yeah now it worked for me. Guess I chose the wrong windows version to run in. That and I probably didn't want my computer getting soft locked again. But yeah, I had it run in Windows XP service pack 2 and I got this one and the first one to run. Can't say if the entire game works this way, but I got it to start and I played it a bit. Just right click the exe, select properties, go to the compatibility tab, then check the box that says "run this program in compatibility mode for:", then choose Windows XP (service pack 2) from the drop down menu just below.