> Yes, I completely deleted my Westwood folder
> and all ra2 folders. I also searched the registry and found no references to ra2, red alert or westwood. I basicly deleted everything I could find related to ra2, unless there's some sort of hidden files I'm misssng.

Did you try to download the patch yourself from the WS FTP site?

> > Hi, You might know me from the old message boards
> > or Black Assassins forum.

> > Please help me. I recently needed to reinstall Ra2. It reinstalled fine and the single player missions went smoothly.

> > I then connected to the internet. Which of course prompted me to download the patch. It stopped updating and said "old file not found. However a file of the same name was found. No update done since the file contents do not match."

> > i don't know what to do. I looked up this problem with WW tech support and it said to reinstall and to delete my windows/temp directory so I did so and it still did not correct this problem.

> > Any help greatly appreciated
> > Oldbold