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taurus , I just went thru the same pain , heres what I did ..create & name a folder in your C drive , I named mine " Games 2 " install disk , in my case I had to go into 'computer' right click on disk , click 'explore' and click on the ' a ' setup launcher ' ..disk will start its install..now very important . it will have a default install folder called C/ Progams X86 or similar ..make sure to change it to install in the folder you made ...install ...then go install 4.08m...then install 4.09m or UI 1.1 ( you know you cant install both together untill they get 4.09m fixed .) all I did was install two copies of Il2 in 2 seperate named folders , 1 was for 4.09m and the other for the UI 1.1 , now when you have figured which IL2 you want to run , you can click on IL2 shortcut to see if game will run , if it doesnt ( you may see disk spinning & PC trying to run ..if it doesnt here is the last thing you do ....go to GAMECopyWorld.com
search for ' IL2 Sturmovik 1946 fixed exe ' install into your folder ...click on your desktop icon ..game will fire up ..thats what I did thru research forums and such ..worked for me ..hope it helps you out . :-? what it boils down too is Oleg didnt have an Vista friendly exe installed with the game & Vista being overprotective of your PC won't allow it to run , unless you go thru the steps .


Good Luck