[bephill9999]

I, also, am having this problem. I just spent good money for OOTP 8 and cannot get it to load. I have tried several ways (i.e. used the shortcut that was created by the startup program, tried going into "My Computer" and starting it from the OOTP 8 folder, and tried running it from the program file) to start the program, but none of them have worked. I have also tried restarting my system, as one of the replies suggested, but it also did not work. I am running Vista and am logged in as the administrator.