I installed morrowind with all three expansions (goty edition) and it worked fine (windows xp), but then for some reason I had to uninstall, except I did a really bad uninstall, and got my self into a position where it thought the game was still installed when it wasn't. So I used some app to delete all the remnants of morrowind from my computer (although I don't think it affected the registry in any way? could It be I need to manually delete morrowind related files from the registry??), After running this app, it seemed to register that it was uninstalled, so I then went about reinstalling it. But instead of reinstalling all three expansions, I figured I might as well just install morrowind to check it works properly first. And low and behold it didnt - I can't get past the Bethesda screen onto the main menu without getting a ctd.
Any help would be massively appreciated, as I am gagging to play MW again, and am not the most tech-savvy of folk.

my ideas are (desperately) -

try installing all three expansions and see if it works (could this be a fix of some kind?)
or, reformat whole computer (yes Im an extremist, but I cant think of anything else to do)

It seems that you have a Windows registry issue here, so just install http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-cleaner/download/ to fix that registry and reboot your computer.
After that just install Morrowind+expansion as usual and launch the game. If that doesn't help you can always came back and post these files along with your loadorder.

both are found in the Morrowind folder

ProgramFlow.txtWarnings.txt

cheers man, you're a legend :tongue:

Thanks and I'm glad I could help you.