thanks for the help found out that antivirus needed to be disabled to get the download to work,now for the story: i am going from running win xp 32bit on old celeron machine/it fried/ to i5 win 7 professional on 64bit . been playing ah for long time and would like this to go easy, instead of starting from scratch with d/l and new install, can i copy my files from old hd to new hd via dvd disk or thumb drive,to save all my settings etc? is there a doc on the forums that addresses all of this/ if so i have yet to find it. thanks lsgs