In Installation..

[Rand]

Im a bit a of a newb at all this type stuff and usually run into a few problems atleast. Using Windows 7 when i got to rerout the Eqhost it asks me to save it? Yes. Overwrite? Yes. Then i get an access denied pop-up. Stuff like this makes me crazy. Anyways thanks in advance for the help!

[Mcbard]

You're most likely not an administrator on your computer. Either become one and make sure you have access to your EverQuest directory, or open notepad as administrator, browse to the file and then edit it.

[Rand]

I tried all that, Even changing ownership over from the files and all sorts of stuff. Im snowed in today and would LOVE to play some EQ if anyone has any other suggestions.

[Rand]

Nevermind, i got it, now if i could just get servers to come up?

[fauxreigner]

I had this problem, too. At first I suspected it was because I have separate user and admin accounts on my machine, but I'm beginning to think that Microsoft just screwed the pooch on file permissions.

To change the server login, I changed the original eqhost.txt to eqhost.txt.orig or something and opened notepad as an administrator. I then pasted the text to change the login server and saved the file as eqhost.txt.

To change the spells_us and other files, extract them to a directory on your desktop then move them over to the appropriate directories. Windows should prompt you for admin access before doing it, but it shouldn't deny you access afterwards.

[Rand]

Thanks man i got all that figured out now, got all the files changed over and all that. Is it suppose to run any patches when i try to log? it just goes straight to server screen but shows no servers.

[Rand]

Even when in a made a new rule to grant access to the port. No servers and saying i own 0 expansions. Anyone know any secrets or do i just need to do a clean reinstall?

[fauxreigner]

I didn't have any problems like this when I followed the instructions in the "Getting Started" post. From what you're saying it sounds like you might be trying to connect to the wrong server or maybe you allowed the client to patch when you ran it; however, I'm not particularly good at troubleshooting these kinds of things if the following the instructions doesn't work.

What does your eqhost.txt file look like and what is the target for the shortcut that you use to launch the game?