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Right on, I'll give it a try this weekend. Thanks BF

Last post on this for me, thank you all very much for participating in my little problem. I got thru the firewall, got "A&B" taken care of then got a new error message regardless of server (tried about a dozen at random after the few regulars failed). New message is: "this server is for non-modified versions of 2142.................revert back to origional.........something, etc." I am running the version strait from EA games, with full 1.5 patch. Un & reinstalled a got same result. But really after much adue, I'm going to let it go. If I really must play the game I'll commandier my old lappie back from my daughter. This has been an excellent learning opportunity for me. But in truth the very little time I can devote to gaming, I'd like to spend playing. There's actually a couple new games in my machine that haven't been touched. I will check in periodically, mabey I can help someone else. Thanks again Brian F

Ha! good call, right before the message window pops up, toward the bottom of the screen there is a message about "pnkbstrA resriction" in my new "pb" desktop folder I can't drill down past setup.exe. I'm still not seeing PunkBuster in the main programs list (thru control panel), finding "pnkbstrA or B .exe" with a file search. or able to locate them by drilling down thru C>program file , or C>user, or C>program files (86x), etc. Do I need to further install pbsetup.exe past accepting the user agreement? So where might these files live so I can allow them thru the firewall? And I did try to locate them thru the firewall allowance browser to no avail. Thanks Brian F

No screen shot, but it's the standard grey metalic 2142 message box. In the upper left hand corner in white, bold, all capital letters is the word "PUNKBUSTER" and in the lower righthand corner the standard "OK" button. Thats it!

Arrghh! No-Go Sucessfully installed PBsetup.exe (from RoadWarrior's link), in pb folder on desktop, added 2142 and updated. Got the update successful message w/"no further updates reqired". Ran E.A. Download Manager as Admin, As well as PB. Couldn't see how to grant admin rights specifically to 2142. \ Still trying, thanks all O.K. by pinning 2142 to the start menu I could bring up the "run as admin " option but it had no effect.

I'm doing it now, thanks, I'm let you know how it worked out. And, RoadWarrior, I'm not trying to be overly smushy here but you and the rest of the team here deserve credit where it is due. Aside from taking my problem seriousely and getting back to me with understandable advise (very quickly) there was none of the "Durrr..........you nube..........Blah, Blah" attitude that causes new users to not want to learn. Good work Brain F over

And Thank you also piggy for trying to help. To answer your question NO, and please see my more in depth responce to HSMagnet for details. Alas your efforts are not waisted, I will be scanning the Battlefield for "piggysan", who just earned massive quantities of covering fire, ala-BRAINZO

Hello HSMagnet and thanks for looking into this. Aftre scrounging around your site a little I found one method of obtaining my GUID is to drilldown something like:C>users>"user">appdat>local>PunkBuster and come to find out I have no PB files. I checked my programs list in the controll pannel and got nothing. Verified in another machine (the one I use for BFBC2) that those file exist and low and behold there they are. So I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say thats my issue. I have "0" PB installed. So now do I need reinstall 2142 & the patch and see what portion of the download I missed or is there something I can get from this site directly. I did run a couple searches on the dowloads page here but didn't come up with anything. Incidentally when I do get kicked the message box is blanc except for the word Punkbuster and the O.K. button. I'll gladly dig up that GUID if it'll be useful but I'm afraid I'm gonna need a little direction. I am new at all this, in fact until about a year and a half ago I was one of those guys, clinging ti his toolbelt waiting for "this computer thing to blow over", now I'm in it up to my eyebrows, haha on me. thanks again Brian F - over

Hello all, and thank you for trying to keep our games fun and honest. I just reinstalled 2142 on a laptop w/patch 1.5 full. Regaurdless of what server I try I'm kicked off within seconds of choosing a kit. My acount with EA appears to be in good standing (as it should be), and I have no problem with BFBC2 (though it's on a different machine). Are there any particular background programs I should be looking to close, I'm running windows 7 (64 bit home premium). I've certainly never chaeted so I doubt I'm actually banned. If you've got any ideas, that would be great. If not, too bad for me. And sincerely thanxs again for all the good work- Brian F