Is it Me or the File?

[grimms]

Restart your computer, then double click the executable file. Or you can go to start menu(Bottom Left), run(Mid Right), type in cmd(If XP or command if win 9x) in the command line and type the full directory and file name with exe at the end(Or you can manually browse to the file on your pc, may be easier for ya), to run the program. If that doesn't work, then delete the file or torrent and redownload it again. Also check to make sure your firewall software is not preventing you from accessing the file and also make sure your AV is not creating a false positive(Seeing your keygen file as a trojan).

[shokan]

Thanks for your help. I think the likeliest culprit is the trojan detection. I will be checking that out shortly. BTW, GRIMMS, that's one mighty fine album cover design. Nice. I'm a graphic designer, or, was.

[Night0wl]

If you are using Vista then start in safe mode using command Prompt. I had very similar problem installing a crack for another program on a friends computer. Was getting the error you mention.

Just put the exe in your installed programs folder and then navigate to it in command prompt. type the full filename and press enter.

[Tokeman]

Thanks for your help. I think the likeliest culprit is the trojan detection. I will be checking that out shortly. BTW, GRIMMS, that's one mighty fine album cover design. Nice. I'm a graphic designer, or, was.

yea, a lot of AV's will detect keygens has 'hacktools' and deletes or cleans them depending on what you've set the AV to do when it detects something.

[shokan]

Original poster here.
Yep, it was Grisoft AVG free edition anti-virus software that caused inoperable keygens.
I had always clicked 'Ignore' at the pop-up window warnings when downloading. This would enable continued download, but the .exe keygen would come through unopenable, as it turns out. 'Heal', at the warning pop-up, disallows the .exe keygen download altogether.
With AVG, I don't recall an "OFF" option, so I uninstalled it temporarily for the new download. Worked perfectly.
I don't think I would have figured this all out on my own, despite the warning pop-ups right in my face all the time. Thanks very much for your help; issue resolved.