[Baldo_the_Don]

I'll try that step next.

I did just check the security tab on the Novalogic folder and noted that under the BESITZER-ERSTELLER (Owner-Creator) account that no permissions were activated, and upon editing that, it now has just the Special Rights activated, and a pair of special rights accounts were created that can view, read, and run things in this folder, but not write.

I'll see if this helps after the next system start, 'cause for some reason, after the system's been running a while and put in and taken out of standy-by mode a few times, the MEDs start without a hitch.

So... fingers crossed!

I've mentioned access rights and permissions under the security tabs in a lot of trouble-shooting posts before, and it's SOP for me to confirm permission settings when I install any older games anyway, but it hadn't occurred to me 'til you brought it up that, perhaps, the updates are messing with the permissions.

That would be insidious, wouldn't it? I think that would be classifiable as insidious.