To Lerner, in RE: getting into protected prog?!
I'm just posting this to apologize for the moderators for the reaction you got to your question. Like someone said, it really is a guilty-until-proven-innocent forum. Some people don't realize that things like this aren't always illegal.
Anyway, to get to the question, it sounds like it might be password-protected or something like that. It might also have a corrupted file. The best thing to do would be to ask the person you got it from if it has a password or any other sort of lock. If not, I'm guessing software error. Try getting the program again in that case.
Now if it's a pirated program that you are trying to run, then yes, that would be illegal. If you want to run it, buy the program, don't steal it.
I'm just posting this to apologize for the moderators for the reaction you got to your question. Like someone said, it really is a guilty-until-proven-innocent forum. Some people don't realize that things like this aren't always illegal.
Anyway, to get to the question, it sounds like it might be password-protected or something like that. It might also have a corrupted file. The best thing to do would be to ask the person you got it from if it has a password or any other sort of lock. If not, I'm guessing software error. Try getting the program again in that case.
Now if it's a pirated program that you are trying to run, then yes, that would be illegal. If you want to run it, buy the program, don't steal it.
