Vista, Shortcut, secondary drive, and patchme. So simple, so irritating.

[hotsh0t5]

UPDATES: Few things I need to mention.

1. My Vista machine is 100% up to date.

2. I have a legit version of everquest installed IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION IN THE C DRIVE. It's not even the platinum edition.

3. ***MOST IMPORTANT*** I just attempted to install to the C drive and surprise surprise it does THE SAME EXACT THING.

4. I've gotten desperate enough to actually take a shortcut WITH quotes and just modify the quotes to point to EQ but it actually STILL automatically changed back. In a stroke of irony the shortcut from the LEGIT NON Titanium game HAS the quotes.

I guess i'll try it out on my XP machine. -_-

[hotsh0t5]

Okay ANOTHER update.

Apparently on my XP machine IT DOES THE SAME FREAKING THING.

I'm very sad now. Time for some sleep. Someone help me X_@

[Myrakkel]

Is there an executable in your EQ directory labeled eqgame.exe?
You might try using that instead. I was able to add the patchme call at the end of the shortcut on my Vista machine, just didn't use the quotes.

[sesmar]

As Myrakkel said you want to use "D:\Everquest\eqgame.exe" patchme not "D:\Everquest\EverQuest.exe" patchme. Also I am running Vista Home Premium with UAC enabled and it works just fine for me.

[gernblan]

People actually run Vista on purpose?

[Diuretic]

UAC's enabled on my Vista installation. It's not a problem for me.

The patching to live will occur in either XP or Vista if you use the default shortcut which points to Everquest.exe instead of eqgame.exe.