Red Alert 2 and My Computer

First off i want to let you guys know that i have no IDEA what im doing with computers on the level you guys know, so bare with me and elaborate on instructions/directions please. After a couple frustrating hours i finally wrote what happened when i installed my game and i got alot of key computer specs for you guys. I hope i gave you guys enough information so that you can give me really good advice! AND this is a laptop we're dealing with here.


Well i installed the game Red Alert 2 completely fine..
then when i clicked the icon the screen came up then minimized on the toolbar then disappeared then it said "WARNING MILITARY SOFTWARE DETECTED TOPSECRET CLEARENCE REQUIRED" as always. But their was no screen, i waited a couple minutes because the computer froze then i turned it off ejected the disk and started it back up. I tried again this time a tiny screen on the desktop came up and it said Red Alert 2 but their was nothing on the toolbar i clicked the icon again and my disk drive made a chug a chug a chug kind of sound (you get the point, lol) then it said "WARNING MILITARY SOFTWARE DETECTED TOPSECRET CLEARENCE REQUIRED" and it froze it installed fine and it seems like my computer is just a little too slow!?


Three things about the last paragraph that i want to let you guys know before any advice are,
1. The noise made from the disk drive made it sound like it was working very hard NOT like it was broken. Could the problem be that my disk drive isnt good or fast enough to deal with this game, and if this is the case can this be upgraded without messing up the laptop??

2. "WARNING MILITARY SOFTWARE DETECTED TOPSECRET CLEARENCE REQUIRED" is said every time the game is started........just to let you know

3. The disk is NOT messed up because ive used it on my other computer for the whole family.

OK, here's all the spec's for you guys......
from the computer summary
tell me if i need to post anymore important ones

Computer Summary
Computer-
Operating System- Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack- Service Pack 2
DirectX- 4.09.00.0904
Computer Name- KEVIN

Motherboard-
CPU Type- Mobile Intel Pentium M 735, 600 MHz (6 x 100)
Motherboard Name- Dell Inspiron 2200
Motherboard Chipset- Intel Alviso-Gi910GML
System Memory- 502 MD (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type- Phoenix (06/21/05)

Display-
Video Adapter- Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family (128 MB)
Video Adapter- Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family (128 MB)
3D Accelerator- Intel GMA 900
Monitor- Plug and Play Monitor [NoDM]
Monitor- Plug and Play Monitor [NoDM]
Monitor- Plug and Play Monitor [NoDM]

Multimedia-
Audio Adapter- Intel 82801FBM ICH6-M – AC’97 Audio Controller [B-1]

Storage-
IDE Controller- Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers – 266F
Disk Drive- Hitachi HTS541060G9AT00 (60 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Optical Drive- PHILIPS CDRW/DVD SCB5265
SMART Hard Disks Status- OK

Partitions-
C: (NTFS) 53725 MB (40237 MB free)

Input-
Keyboard- Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse- Synaptics S/2 Port Pointing Device

Network-
Network Adapter- Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (192.168.0.12)
Network Adapter- Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
Modem- Conexant D110 MDC V.9x Modem

Peripherals-
Printer- Dell AIO Printer A920
Printer- Fax
Printer- Intuit Internal Printer
Printer- Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
USB1 Controller- Intel 82801FBM ICH6-M - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1]
USB1 Controller- Intel 82801FBM ICH6-M - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1]
USB1 Controller- Intel 82801FBM ICH6-M - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1]
USB1 Controller- Intel 82801FBM ICH6-M - USB Universal Host Controller [B-1]
USB2 Controller- Intel 82801FBM ICH6-M - Enhanced USB2 Controller [B-1]
Battery- Microsoft AC adapter
Battery- Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery


I really hope that you guys can give me some help with what i may be doing wrong or what needs to be better for my computer to run it.

 

the specs are just fine, its a fairly old game and has very low requirements; i can run it fine on my old win98 , 94megs of ram, pentium 2, on an ati RAGE card lol. Doesnt sound like your hdd is having problems, the noise is just the disk spinning and reading data. I really dont know why its wanting you to install it every time, thats kinda wierd....maybe someone else can help

 

Noo.. its not trying to make me install it again its just not going to the game ive waited a long time for it to come up too 5-10 minutes can it work on laptop?.? It will just FREEZE the whole screen and i'll have to turn the computer off.

 

it shouldnt matter if its a laptop or not. have you tried reinstalling it? also, just to besure, make sure all your drivers are up to date; video card, audio, etc. sorry im not helping that much