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This is almost always caused by AV software killing the trainer. I just tried the trainer and it loaded fine on my PC.

[Edited by moderator PWizard, 11/28/2022 6:23:35 AM]

As detailed in my post, I disabled all of the antivirus on my computer as well as on my browser, and added security exceptions on the folder so that it would be ignored by my disabled antivirus I guess.

The non-standalone trainers work fine for me, but this specific standalone is for some reason not launching properly.

If this is almost always caused by AV software, and all of my AV is disabled, what else could be causing it?

*edit* if it helps, the only AV on my computer is windows defender/firewall. I dont have anything else installed regarding antivirus. I have also allowed both the Aurora launcher and the standalone trainer itself through both, but that shouldnt matter I would think since they are disabled.

[Edited by BeardyWeirdy, 11/28/2022 7:59:42 AM]

Disabled or not Windows defender still work in the background, the best is letting it work as normal but with (as you already did) the exceptions in place including the folder you installed your standalone trainers...as I do 😎

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I dont know what happened (I have been restarting my computer after every change because thats how Windows works) but just in case I decided to shut off my router and then power down and power on my computer while the router was off.

Trainer launches just fine now as detailed in the picture.

Not sure what might have been the problem, maybe some junk data (I have verizon as my ISP and the router is weird - cant do stuff like port forwarding on it - and verizon has been having a ton of issues in my area) but thanks for the quick responses!

This trainer does not launch. Windows says it's a tmp file

Hi Buggy13.

This message means that you are missing some exclusion in your AV. You need to set the following:

C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\Cheathappens\
C:\ProgramData\CheatHappens
C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Roaming\Cheat Happens\
C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Temp\CH_Temp.tmp
C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Temp~Mnn133.tmp
C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\AppData\Local\Temp~CheathappensTrainer.tmp
You can see how to set exclusions here: Link

Note: You may not find the last 3 on this list. I temporary solution is to exclude the entire Temp folder, start up the trainer, and then exclude the file(s). After that is done, remove the Temp folder as this is not advised having excluded.