Go visit a basic computer training - probable one for older aged people. And learn how to turn off you inet connection without rebooting your damn modem. My god - do we have to care about everyone's PC knowledge?? 8 hours to try to figure out a way around this problem. Not bad. I would make it in lets say within a minute to start the game without Internet access. But you are one of the kind of people that want to be controlled by PCs and not the other way round that you might control your PC?