Well, i managed to clean my system.. also clean the registry, but that tool that finds so much - does find so much, because it also wants to kill useful and necessary entries, folks - if you dont know what youre doing, dont use that.
Anyways, i managed to reinstall, and GWXd it as well.
Now my problem is, that savegames of years of playing the campaign
are gone ..
..well i have backed them up somewhere, but i kind of dont dare
to copy them in place, because i have reason to believe something is foul about them and caused the mess in the first place.
I found that out by running a test on my laptop, there is not enough diskspace to really play the game with GWX, but the vanilla install works - so i copied the savegames there (1942, gibraltar) ... and the game crashed no matter wich of the savegames i tried to load
I resort to play single missions, until i managed to figure our how to fix the
my saved career. Is there a post somewhere that describes which files actually are the ones needed to save the career?
I also tried reducing the number of saves, deleted the first 2 yrs of saves
but that didnt keep the game from crashing on loading one of the more recent saves.