Aside from the difference in directories, yeah, that's what the shortcut says.  Tried username passed in the shortcut, but it didn't work.  Been playing the beta since it first came out, don't know what happened to lose the registry entry, don't know why it doesn't work after I downloaded from stardock and reinstalled.  right now, the only way I get the game to start is opening cmd, changing to the directory and running the exe followed by /username /password.

I would love to help, but im an idiot at computers too, try asking on the support forum (the tend to check those posts more often and more closely, also posting it a new time cant hurt )

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

You can also start it from the command line (cmd):

1.  Open cmd.

2.  Go to the directory that FE is installed in (may vary, I use f: for programs):  F:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\FallenEnchantress.  You may need to move to the root of the directory your program files are in, first "f:"

3.  Start FE with your username and password that was used when you bought it (ie., your stardock, or for the oldies among us, your drengin.net username/password):  FallenEnchantress.exe /username "your username" /password "your password"

put spaces between username & "your username" and passowrd & "your password".

I'd save it to a notepad file, so you can copy & paste to the command line.

pek

EDIT:  WOW, did I just reply to my own question?  Time to go lie down.......................................