"Please go to the Control Panel to install and configure system components" error with some setups

Hello,

I'm setting up my ThinkPad T43 for Windows XP gaming, but unfortunately I've hit a minor snag with some things. Basically, I get the error message in the title when running a few installers or patchers; the one I can remember right now is the 3.9.68 patch for Championship Manager 01/02.

I know there are a zillion hits for this on the web, but there's no sign of an autorun.inf on C:/, I deleted the setup.exe registry key and it made no difference, and I even deleted an autorun.inf that was strangely located in another game's folder - still get the error message. Never seen this happen on ANY other PC, even though I've used the exact same image and the same software as I have on other systems, so it's very odd. An anti-virus scan came back clean, but I'm 99% sure it did this on a previous install as well, which was on a different hard drive.

Any ideas?

 

Do these games/patches support XP ?

 

Yep, CM 01/02 supports XP just fine. I've run that game on at least half a dozen XP systems over the years and never saw this issue.

 

No, there hasn't been.