And a reply from Moose1am on the Sonalysts forum, perhaps it helps you in any way.
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I am relatively new to DW but I have been a gamer for over ten years.
Some general things come to my mind when reading about your problem.
1) corrupted download. Did you have any accellerator programs running when you downloaded or installed DW. Shut down any other programs that are running in memory and then reboot. Clear your tmp files before rebooting. Now RE-DOWNLOAD the game.
Uninstall the game completely. Make sure that you also check to make sure that the DW directory is gone after you use the uninstall program. You can also uninstall DW from the Control Panels add/remove programs.
Reboot.
Now take the newly downloaded game and make sure that nothing is running in memory on your computer other than the OS. ie shut down any virus checking programs that run in the background. Shut down any ohter programs before you try to insall any new game. That includes DW.
If you fail to to the above then sometimes you can get a bad install of any game. This may not be true in all things but it's a good general rule to follow when loading up new games.
If you have followed all these suggestions above then I don't know what else to tell you.
End all is a program that can be used to shut other programs down. Or the windows task manager. I generally run ZAP and McAfee. I have to go into each of those programs and shut them down so that they don't start back up when I reboot my system.
Many times when installing a new game these virus checking programs can interfer with a download or the installion of the game.
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