Please turn of windows firewall and disable User Accaunt Control ( control
panel>user accaunt).Then try again

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Thanks
Serdar KALIN
"Ruskets" <Ruskets@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:837F8911-71C4-4932-BE6D-9A5E1C516D02@microsoft.com...
>I have one dell laptop running Vista home premium and a number of XP
> computers. The vista computer can run AOEII:C on XPSP2 compatibility mode
> and join any multiplayer game hosted by an XP computer. The problem is
> that
> it cannot host a multiplayer game. On Lan TCP/IP, when I click create
> game
> it goes to the "Creating Game - wait 15 sec..." screen, then goes back to
> the
> main multiplayer menu after a couple seconds. No error messages or
> anything.
> I have directx 10 and the 1.0c patch installed.