i have only two profiles set up - none of them is an administrator...
i can select mine and a guest profile - both result in the above error message.

the swiss company is a pure retailer (coffee machines, hoovers, plasma-tvs, car audio, xbox, and pc games) they just buy in bulk. i sent an email to cdv as their logo is on the box, the manual and on the cd. it is definitively the german version.

how do i run my system as an administrator?

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the program came in a german box with a german manual and of course a german cd. the recommended hotfix did not work, the error message remains the same: "Die JVM konnte nicht gestartet werden". it is the similar problem that n3r or Elfe posted. but again the java hotfix (german version) does not ...

bought this game yesterday from a swiss retailer for CHF 29 (mediamarkt). the original distributor for the german version is cdv ( http://www.cdv-shop.de/product_info.php?info=p2926_Commander---Europe-at-War.html ). installing procedure works fine. when trying to start the game the above mentioned ...