Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour not working

@Spoarph

Actually, the registry fix re-enables the safedisc security thing. The original error occurs when the game is unable to load its DRM system, so re-enabling it fixes that. I was mostly just wondering if you used a cracked exe. Not that I'd mind that, though; in this case it is, oddly, a perfectly valid solution 😞. But it's hard to give support for that since we can never really know how it changed the game, and sometimes these no-cd exes require you to copy certain files from the game disks to work properly.

As for your issue, some more information would probably be useful. What operating system are you running on? Where is your game installed?

I know that in a lot of cases, the problem is that you install programs as administrator, under "program files", but because of that you don't have the correct rights to actually run the program later. Generals is a bit of a fringe case in that aspect; the first generation of games that uses Program Files as default install location, but I don't think that back in these days, that install folder was already read only even to these installed programs. As you might imagine, this is disastrous for earlier games which store their settings inside the install folder; they can't change their own settings file.

I don't think this applies to Generals too, though; it makes folders in My Documents to store its settings. But you should make sure these folders are indeed there, and the files inside it are writable for your standard account. Otherwise, you should create them / take ownership of the folder. I think the pinned Common Problems thread in the forum might have more info on that.