Is it possible that this would happen if the .exe file is corrupted?
I didn't bought the game, a friend of mine gave it to me and now I need to live with a cracked .exe.
The game worked fine on my dad's PC when I played it with the CD.
Thats obviously a post you should ignore
See if windows event log says anything about it
(control panel -> admin -> event log)
(although admin panel is completely empty for me :/)
I don't even have an admin panel :o