Hi everyone.
I'm sorry to bother you but this is getting out of control.


Recently I tried to install the EuropaBarbarorum Mod and failed miserably. The last method I tried to get it to work was the tried and often true method of uninstalling and reinstalling the game, then trying the process again. Though I failed to get EB to work the game seemed fine as it opened for me and worked all right.

Later I decided to have a go at vanilla while someone got back to me about the mod, but it didn't open right. I decided to try again and pay attention, and lo and behold, the game did not get four seconds into the first loading screen (with all the company logos) when it quit with no explanation. I checked all the files and everything was all right. I thought it was just because I was not at 1.5, but when I tried to install the patch it wouldn't let me alter the RTW.exe file. It said to make sure that no one else was using it (I was the only one logged on), that I had access to the file (I was logged on as an Administrator), and to make sure the cd was neither sure nor write protected (which I do not know the meaning or importance of). I decided that maybe if I deleted everything that had to do with RTW I could reinstall the game cleanly.

The problem was that the uninstaller could not touch not only the .exe file, but all the files in the "Miles" folder. Now whenever I try to play the game the computer simply says that "Windows cannot access the device, path, or file necessary to perform the process. Please make sure you have access to the file, path, or device and that no other users on the computer are at the moment using it." I was logged on as Administrator, and there are no other profiles that can be used, so I have no idea what the problem is.

Any help on how to fix my problem would be incredibly appreciated. Not being able to play/try out EB was frustrating, but having to wait six months for a new computer to be able to play RTW again would make me cry (in a literal sense, at least for a few minutes).