Quake Wars Installation Problems

Hi, I just got back from EB Games where I pre ordered Crysis, and I bought Quake wars...

I already had a problem before:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=176234

And it still persists... I cant play until this MSI / Windows installer problem is solved...

 

Thanks for your help people my god...

 

Sounds like a Vista permissions thing. For many games, when I got to the Installshield part with Vista Home Premium, it would show an error and then crash. There are two things I did that helped.

The first was to disable UAC - User Access Control. UAC was a real b**ch for me, and for some reason prevented me from installing practically anything. That fixed the problem for some games. However, the only way I could get to install anything I wanted was by activating the in-built 'secret' Vista Administrator account, then installing when logged in with that. You can give any login you like as many privileges and admin rights as there are, but in the Home Premium version of Vista there are some rights that the secret admin account has that seem to be exclusive to it.

I don't have the links, sorry, but you should be able to easily enough find guides to disabling UAC and activating the secret admin mode in Google. Hope this helps.