Technical Help and a facepalm moment

Hi,
I just recently bought a laptop with Vista ultimate 32bit. I somehow manged to get maple to work once (gods were smiling on me or something) but I am encountering some issues when trying to get it to run. The main issue is that I get a gameguard error 114 and another error (can't remember which but when I get home I will add it also). A lot of searching around has given me numerous suggestions. I have turned off firewalls, deleted gameguard, updated drivers, etc and to no avail.
One site suggests that Ultimate uses a folder called Virtual Store for certain files and you need to copy this folder into a program files folder.

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First, enable hidden folders. You then go to your Program Files and open the Triggersoft folder (or any other folder where you might have ROSE installed). After that open another window to view your "My Computer". On the left of the scroll bar you should see several folders / icons, starting with Desktop and going down with the name of the computer, and then Public or Computer and so on. Click on the folder that has your computer name on it. In that folder open "AppData" (remember this folder is hidden, make sure you can view it). Then, open the folder that says "Local". After that, look for the folder that says "VirtualStore", and finally, open the one that says "Program Files". Look for the Triggersoft folder, and you should find the GameGuard folder in it. Now LEAVE that folder open and go back to your first window that had the Triggersoft folder with all the other folders and items. Copy and Paste it to the folder with just the GameGuard in it. After that, try updating again.

While this is for ROSE it should work for maple as it is the same issue.
Now for my facepalm moment. In trying to locate this folder, I accidently made my computer name folder hidden and for some reason I can't make it un-hidden.
Can someone please tell me how to do so.

If anyone has any information on how to get maple working again, I would very much appreciate this also.

Edit: Also read changing the DEP for Vista might help. Anyone know how to specifically target Gameguard in this option?

Well if you know the folder's name, you could try accessing it manually by typing it's name here

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And then right click, click properties, and then make it unhidden

most likely it isn't because you are on vista. A lot of maplers run maple fine on vista. It is probably with some sort of software you're running.

What programs/processes do you have running when you're getting this problem? Also if you can post full specs of your laptop it would be best

Brand new laptop.

Asus Notebook M51Va, M51Vr Series
4 Gb Ram
Intel Core2 Duo T9400 @ 2.53GHz
Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1
ATI Radeon HD 3650

The only things that I've out on the computer and Maple, CA Security Suite (Yes, I had allowed permissions in firewall and disabled it also) and FireFox.

I would get rid of the security suite, restart and give maple a go after.

Perhaps try disabling the UAC? It worked for me.

I would get rid of the security suite, restart and give maple a go after.

Did that and it worked, though in the brief time I was firewall-less it seems my yahoo email was used to spam...
I think I have a workaround though, on my old laptop I found the install for the 2008 version of CA ISS and it worked (once so far).
Suggestions for a good alternative Virus/Firewall package? I don't mind paying for one but I am not going to use Norton EVER =P

Perhaps try disabling the UAC? It worked for me.

What other errors were you getting? I also sometimes get one that tells me Themida isn't working (or something)

Well, I never got the Themida isn't working (or whatever it's called). I think I only got the error 114...

I get McAfee 8.5i Enterprise and Symantec(Norton) for free from my university. If you are currently enrolled in one try and see if you can get one. The versions they offer are very uh...light, no annoying notifications, just basic on-access scan, schedule scan, buffer overload protection etc. Team that with Spybot and it's pretty much win.

Otherwise...try AVG or Avast? Both are free.

Try right clicking the maplestory.exe file, and click properties and choose the compatibility tab, and run with Windows XP...thats what I did and it works, if not theres an auto firewall with vista, you could try running the game under administrator mode, that 1 second firewall can mess with GG. If you run as admin it goes away, therefore not conflicting with GG

Running as administrator and compatability mode did nothing. Apparently installing CA ISS sometimes lowers the admin priviledges on the account that installs it. Meaning I have to create a new user with admin powers to be able to access advanced settings...

L> Good Internet Security Suite that isn't Norton or McAfee. I don't mind paying for it.

Hrm, thats weird, because those two things were what I had to do to get mine to work. You should try AVG its anti-virus + firewall, and you get the options to open your ports to specific programs (MS, torrents, WoW, etc)

If you want a good firewall I've heard ZoneAlarm is good from a friend that is computer nerdy... Though I dislike the program =\
and for AntiVirus use AVG =\ unless you dispise it